Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance / Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series

by Unknown

5.⁴ ‘brawn,’ calf.

‘Your stockings shall be o’ the broad kail-blade,

That is baith broad and long;

And narrow, narrow at the coot,

And broad, broad at the brawn.

6.

‘Your gloves shall be the marygold,

All glittering to your hand,

Well spread o’er wi’ the blue blaewort,

That grows in corn-land.’