13
She has tane a siller wan,
An gien him strokes three,
And he has started up the bravest knight
That ever your eyes did see.
14
She has taen a small horn,
An loud an shrill blew she,
An a' the fish came her untill
But the proud machrel of the sea:
'Ye shapeit me ance an unseemly shape,
An ye's never mare shape me.'
15
He has sent to the wood
For whins and for hawthorn,
An he has taen that gay lady,
An there he did her burn.
22, 72. lays: but lies, 124.
33. ducks, but compare 83.
FOOTNOTES:
[302] Dives, in one version of a well-known carol, has "a place prepared in hell, to sit upon a serpent's knee." The pious chanson in question is a very different thing from an old ballad, which, it is hoped, no one will think capable of fatuity.
[303] As, for example, a dragon has in Hahn's Griechische Märchen, No 26, I, 187, and elsewhere.