The Text is from Sharpe’s Ballad Book (1823). It is an extremely popular ballad in Scotland.
The Story .—Lady Jean Melville (in other versions Jean of Bethelnie, in Aberdeenshire), scarce sixteen years old, falls in love at first sight with Glenlogie, and tells him her mind. But he is already engaged, and Lady Jean takes to her care-bed. Her father offers the consolation, usual in such cases, of another and a richer husband. Jean, however, prefers the love of Glenlogie to the euphony of Drumfendrich, and gets her father’s chaplain to write a letter to Glenlogie, which is so well indited that it moves him to tears, and all ends happily.
GLENLOGIE
1.
Four and twenty nobles sits in the king’s ha’,
Bonnie Glenlogie is the flower among them a’.
2.
In came Lady Jean, skipping on the floor,
And she has chosen Glenlogie ’mong a’ that was there.
3.