The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship

by Robert Chambers

'And whaten penance will ye drie for that,,

Edward, Edward?,

And whaten penance will ye drie for that,,

My dear son, now tell me, O?',

'I'll set my feet in yonder boat,,

Mother, mother;,

I'll set my feet in yonder boat,,

And I'll fare over the sea, O.'

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'And what will ye leave to your bairns and your wife,,