He’s tane her by the milk-white hand,
And he’s thrown her in the main;
And full five-and-twenty hundred ships
Perish’d all on the coast of Spain.
THE BROOMFIELD HILL
The Text is taken from Scott’s Minstrelsy (1803). It would be of great interest if we could be sure that the reference to ‘Hive Hill’ in 8.1 was from genuine Scots tradition. In Wager’s comedy The Longer thou Lived the more Fool thou art (about 1568) Moros sings a burden:—
‘Brome, brome on hill,
The gentle brome on hill, hill,
Brome, brome on Hive hill,