[91]. A beautiful plain, or common, lying along the Tay near Perth.—Chambers.
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE.
From The Thistle of Scotland, p. 100.
The editor states that he took the ballad down from the recitation of an old gentlewoman in Aberdeenshire.
Wou'd ye hear of William Wallace,
An' sek him as he goes,
Into the lan' of Lanark,
Amang his mortel faes?
There was fyften English sogers5
Unto his ladie cam,
Said "Gie us William Wallace,
That we may have him slain.
"Wou'd ye gie William Wallace,
That we may have him slain,10
And ye's be wedded to a lord,
The best in Christendeem."
"This verra nicht at seven,
Brave Wallace will come in,
And he'll come to my chamber door,15
Without or dread or din."