He made his love a coffin off the Goats of Yerrow,
And buried his bonnie love doun in a sea valley.
WILLIAM GUISEMAN.
From Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 156.
"My name is William Guiseman,
In London I do dwell;
I have committed murder,
And that is known right well;
I have committed murder,5
And that is known right well,
And it's for mine offence I must die.
"I lov'd a neighbour's dochter,
And with her I did lie;
I did dissemble with her10
Myself to satisfy;
I did dissemble with her
Myself to satisfy,
And it's for mine offence I must die.
"Sae cunningly's I kept her,15
Until the fields war toom;
Sae cunningly's I trysted her
Unto yon shade o' broom;
And syne I took my wills o' her,
And then I flang her doun,20
And it's for mine offence I must die.
"Sae cunningly's I killed her,
Who should have been my wife;
Sae cursedly's I killed her,
And with my cursed knife;25
Sae cursedly's I killed her,
Who should have been my wife,
And it's for mine offence I must die.