"You've had a cruel mither, Willie,115
And I have had anither;
But we shall sleep in Clyde's water,
Like sister an' like brither."
[ 39], 40. Found also in Leander on the Bay, and taken from the epigram of Martial:
"Clamabat tumidis audax Leander in undis,
Mergite me fluctus, cum rediturus ero."
WILLIE'S DROWNED IN GAMERY.
From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, i. 245. A fragment, exhibiting some differences, is among those ballads of Buchan which are published in the Percy Society's volumes, xvii. 66. Four stanzas, of a superior cast, upon the same story, are printed in the Tea-Table Miscellany, (ii. 141.)
Rare Willy drown'd in Yarrow.
"Willy's rare, and Willy's fair,
And Willy's wond'rous bonny;
And Willy heght to marry me,
Gin e'er he married ony.
"Yestreen I made my bed fu' braid,
This night I'll make it narrow;
For a' the livelang winter night
I ly twin'd of my marrow.