That is in the hale country.’
THE WHUMMIL BORE
The Text is from Motherwell’s MS. He included it in the Appendix to his Minstrelsy. No other collector or editor notices the ballad—‘if it ever were one,’ as Child remarks.
The only point to be noted is that the second stanza has crept into two versions of Hind Horn, apparently because of the resemblance of the previous stanzas, which present a mere ballad-commonplace.
THE WHUMMIL BORE
1.
1.2,4,5 The burden is of course repeated in each stanza.
Seven lang years I hae served the king,
Fa fa fa fa lilly