And there the king and all his court
Were playing at the ba';60
Gave him a harp into his hand,
Says,—"Stay, Heyvalin, and play."
He has tane up the harp in hand,
And unto play went he;
And young Bearwell was the first man65
In all that companie.
[9], That.
LORD THOMAS OF WINESBERRY AND THE KING'S DAUGHTER.
From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, ii. 212. Another version is given in Buchan's Gleanings, p. 127, and a third by Kinloch, p. 93. Kinloch considers that the ballad may relate to the secret expedition of James V. to France, in 1536, in search of a wife. In the last verse of his copy of the ballad, Lord Thomas turns out to be no less a man than the King of Scotland.
Seven years the king he staid
Into the land of Spain,
And seven years true Thomas was
His daughter's chamberlain.
But it fell ance upon a day5
The king he did come home;
She beked and she benjed ben,
And did him there welcome.
"What aileth you, my daughter, Janet,
You look sae pale and wan?10
There is a dreder in your heart,
Or else ye love a man."