There is a babe betwixt thy sides,—
Oh! sae sair's it grieves me!"
"O didna I tell ye, auld Ingram,125
Ere ye socht me to wed,
That Lord Wa'yates, your sister's son,
Had been into my bed?"
"Then father that bairn on me, Maisery,
O father that bairn on me;130
And ye sall hae a rigland shire
Your mornin' gift to be."
"O sarbit!" says the Ladie Maisery,
"That ever the like me befa',
To father my bairn on auld Ingram,135
Lord Wa'yates in my father's ha'.
"O sarbit!" says the Ladie Maisery,
"That ever the like betide,
To father my bairn on auld Ingram,
And Lord Wa'yates beside."140
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SWEET WILLIE AND FAIR MAISRY. See p. [79].
From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, i. 97.