(Parody of a Ballad in “Percy’s Reliques.”)
’Twas on Maxwelton’s bonny braes
(“Where early fa’s the dew.”)
That at the set of sun I met
A Friar of Orders blue.
With sigh, and frown, and eyes cast down,
His face was sad to see;
Some heavy care was settled there—
Whatever could it be?
“Come hither, come hither, thou Holy Friar,