10
'On every finger she has a ring,
On the mid-finger she has three;
She's as much gold about her brow
As would an earldom buy to me.'
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11
He's taen her by the milk-white hand,
He gently led her through the green;
He changed her name from Susie Pie,
An he's called her lovely Ladye Jean.
J.
Dr Joseph Robertson's Note-Book, "Adversaria," p. 85. From tradition.
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1
She's taen the keys frae her fadder's coffer,
Tho he keeps them most sacredlie,
And she has opend the prison strong,
And set Young Beichan at libertie.
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2
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'Gae up the countrie, my chile,' she says,
'Till your fadder's wrath be turned from thee.'