23
'What will you leave to your sister Anne?'
'My silken scarf and my gowden fan.'
24
'What will you leave to your sister Grace?'
'My bloody cloaths to wash and dress.'
25
'What will you leave to your brother John?'
'The gallows-tree to hang him on.'
26
'What will you leave to your brother John's wife?'
'The wilderness to end her life.'
27
This ladie fair in her grave was laid,
And many a mass was oer her said.
28
But it would have made your heart right sair,
To see the bridegroom rive his haire.
B.
Kinloch's MSS, I, 21, from Mary Barr, May, 1827, Clydesdale.
1
A gentleman cam oure the sea,
Fine flowers in the valley
And he has courted ladies three.
With the light green and the yellow