15.
15.2 ‘lugs,’ ears.
The friar he walked on the street,
And shaking his lugs like a well-washen sheep.
THE KNIGHT AND THE SHEPHERD’S DAUGHTER
The Text is given here from Kinloch’s MSS. He gives also three other versions and various fragments. The tale is also found amongst the Roxburghe Ballads, as The Beautifull Shepherdesse of Arcadia, in two broadsides printed about 1655 and 1680. This is the only English version extant. But earlier than any text of the ballad is a quotation from it in John Fletcher’s The Pilgrim, iv. 2 (1621). The Scots versions, about a dozen in number, are far more lively than the broadside. Buchan printed two, of sixty and sixty-three stanzas respectively. Another text is delightfully inconsequent:—
‘“Some ca’ me Jack, some ca’ me John,
Some ca’ me Jing-ga-lee,
But when I am in the queen’s court