WILLIE O’ WINSBURY
The Text is from the Campbell MSS.
The Story was imagined by Kinloch to possess a quasi-historical foundation: James V. of Scotland, who eventually married Madeleine, elder daughter of Francis I., having been previously betrothed ‘by treaty’ to Marie de Bourbon, daughter of the Duke of Vendôme, returned to Scotland in 1537. The theory is neither probable nor plausible.
WILLIE O’ WINSBURY
1.
The king he hath been a prisoner,
A prisoner lang in Spain, O,
And Willie o’ the Winsbury
Has lain lang wi’ his daughter at hame, O.