LORD WA'YATES AND AULD INGRAM.
A FRAGMENT. See p. [72].
Jamieson's Popular Ballads, ii. 265.
"From Mr. Herd's MS., transmitted by Mr. Scott."
Lady Maisery was a lady fair,
She made her mother's bed;
Auld Ingram was an aged knight,
And her he sought to wed.
"Its I forbid ye, auld Ingram,5
For to seek me to spouse;
For Lord Wa'yates, your sister's son,
Has been into my bowers.
"Its I forbid ye, auld Ingram,
For to seek me to wed;10
For Lord Wa'yates, your sister's son,
Has been into my bed."