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When she cam to the Nether-Bow Port,
She laugh't loud laughters three;
But when she cam to the gallows foot,
The saut tear blinded her ee.
"Yestreen the Queen had four Maries,25
The night she'll hae but three;
There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beaton,
And Marie Carmichael and me.
"Ye mariners, ye mariners,
That sail upon the sea,30
Let not my father or mother wit
The death that I maun die.
"I was my parents' only hope,
They ne'er had ane but me;
They little thought when I left hame,35
They should nae mair me see!"
SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER.
See p. [136].
From Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 51; taken down from recitation.
Yesterday was brave Hallowday,
And, above all days of the year,
The schoolboys all got leave to play,
And little Sir Hugh was there.