I’ll chain my heart for evermair.
BONNY BEE HO’M
and
THE LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND
The Texts are taken respectively from Alexander Fraser Tytler’s Brown MS., and from Herd’s MSS., vol. i. fol. 49, where it is stated that a verse is wanting.
The Story of Bonny Bee Ho’m is of the slightest. The gift of the ring and chain occurs in many ballads and folk-tales. For the ring, see Hind Horn, 4-6 (First Series, p. 187).
For the lady’s vow to put no comb in her hair, occurring in both ballads, compare Clerk Sanders, 21.4
The Lowlands of Holland is merely a lyrical version of the same theme.
BONNY BEE HO’M
1.
By Arthur’s Dale as late I went