Scho rowd hir mantil hir about,
And sair sair gan she weip:
And she ran into the Jewis castèl,35
Quhan they wer all asleip.
My bonny sir Hew, my pretty sir Hew,
I pray thee to me speik.
"O lady, rinn to the deip draw-well,
Gin[333] ye your sonne wad seik."40
Lady Helen ran to the deip draw-well,
And knelt upon her kne:
My bonny sir Hew, an[334] ye be here,
I pray thee speik to me.
"The lead is wondrous heavy, mither,45
The well is wondrous deip,
A keen pen-knife sticks in my hert,
A word I dounae[335] speik.
Gae hame, gae hame, my mither deir,
Fetch me my windling sheet,50
And at the back o' Mirry-land toun,
Its thair we twa fall meet."
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FOOTNOTES:
[322] Entdecktes Judenthum, vol. ii. p. 220.
[323] Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1865, p. 371.
[324] History of the Jews, ed. 1863, vol. iii. p. 249.