53
Up then spake the Queen o Fairies,
Out o a bush o rye:
'She's taen awa the bonniest knight
In a' my cumpanie.
54
'But had I kennd, Tamlane,' she says,
'A lady wad borrowd thee
I wad taen out thy twa grey een,
Put in twa een o tree.
55
'Had I but kennd, Tamlane,' she says,
'Before ye came frae hame,
I wad taen out your heart o flesh,
Put in a heart o stane.
56
'Had I but had the wit yestreen
That I hae coft the day,
I'd paid my kane seven times to hell
Ere you'd been won away.'
[A].
Divided in the Museum into 45-1/2 four-line stanzas, without heed to rhyme or reason, 35,6 making a stanza with 41,2, etc.
31. has belted.
42. Tom, elsewhere Tam.
174. brie.