Story-Telling Ballads / Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading

by Unknown

Has gotten a stately groom.”—

Up then spake the queen o’ Fairies,

Out o’ a bush o’ rye—

“She’s ta’en awa the bonniest knight

In a’ my cumpanie.

“But had I kenn’d, Tamlane,” she says,

“A ladye wad borrow’d thee—

I wad ta’en out thy twa grey een,

Put in twa een o’ tree.