"Rise up, rise up, Mary Hamilton,
Rise up, and dress ye fine,
For you maun gang to Edinbruch,
[And stand afore the nine.]
"Ye'll no put on the dowie black,35
Nor yet the dowie brown;
But ye'll put on the robes o' red,
To sheen thro' Edinbruch town."
"I'll no put on the dowie black,
Nor yet the dowie brown;40
But I'll put on the robes o' red,
To sheen thro' Edinbruch town."
As they gaed thro' Edinbruch town,
And down by the Nether-bow,
There war monie a lady fair45
Siching and crying, "Och how!"
"O weep na mair for me, ladies,
Weep na mair for me;
Yestreen I killed my ain bairn,
The day I deserve to dee.50
"What need ye hech! and how! ladies,
What need ye how! for me;
Ye never saw grace at a graceless face,—
Queen Mary has nane to gie."
"Gae forward, gae forward," the Queen she said,
"Gae forward, that ye may see;55
For the very same words that ye hae said,
Sall hang ye on the gallows tree."
As she gaed up the Tolbooth stairs,
She gied loud lauchters three;60
But or ever she cam down again,
She was condemn'd to dee.