She row'd him in a cake of lead,
Bade him ly still and sleep,
She threw him i' the Jew's draw-well,35
It was fifty fathom deep.
Whan bells were rung, and mass was sung,
And a' man bound to bed,
Every lady got home her son,
But sweet Sir Hugh was dead.
THE JEW'S DAUGHTER.
From Percy's Reliques, i. 40; printed from a manuscript copy sent from Scotland.
Mirryland toune is a corruption of Merry Lincoln, and not, as Percy conjectured, of Mailand (Milan) town. In Motherwell's copy we have Maitland town.
The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune,
Sae dois it doune the Pa:
Sae dois the lads of Mirry-land toune,
Quhan they play at the ba'.
Than out and cam the Jewis dochter,5
Said, "Will ye cum in and dine?"
"I winnae cum in, I cannae cum in,
Without my play-feres nine."
Scho powd an apple reid and white,
To intice the zong thing in:10
Scho powd an apple white and reid,
And that the sweit bairne did win.