Since my lord has sae slighted me."50
O an' I had ne'er crossed the Tweed,
Nor yet been owre the river Dee,
I might hae staid at Lord Orgul's gate,
Where I wad hae been a gay ladie.
The ladies they will cum to town,55
And they will cum and visit me;
But I'll set me down now in the dark,
For ochanie! who'll comfort me?
An' wae betide ye, black [fastness],
Ay, and an ill deid may ye die!60
Ye was the first and foremost man
Wha parted my true lord and me.
[59]: fastness, printed Fastness by Finlay, is, says Motherwell, merely falsetness, falseness.
LAIRD OF BLACKWOOD. See p. [135].
Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 60.
"I lay sick, and very sick,
And I was bad, and like to die,
A friend o' mine cam to visit me;—
And Blackwood whisper'd in my lord's ear,
That he was owre lang in chamber wi' me.5