10
It fell ance upon a day,
She saw twa babies at their play.
11
'O bonny babies, gin ye were mine,
I'd cleathe you in the silks sae fine.'
12
'O wild mother, when we were thine,
You cleathd us not in silks so fine.
13
'But now we're in the heavens high,
And you've the pains o hell to try.'
14
She threw hersell oer the castle-wa,
There I wat she got a fa.
G.
Notes and Queries, 1st S., VIII, 358. From Warwickshire, communicated by C. Clifton Barry.
1
There was a lady lived on [a] lea,
All alone, alone O
Down by the greenwood side went she.
Down the greenwood side O
2
She set her foot all on a thorn,
There she had two babies born.