The bride she patted wi her lips,
She winked wi her ee,
Yet never thought by the words he spake
'T was her sister, Annie.
After 35:
When they had eaten and well drunken,
And all had fared fine,
The knight he called his butlers all,
For to serve out the wine.
After 38:
Then out it speaks an English lord,
A smart young lord was he:
'O if she be a maiden fair,
Wi her I'se wedded be.'
The bridegroom gae a laugh at that
Amang his merry young men;
Says, There's a hynd chiel in the house
Runs far nearer her mind.
After 53:
O if this be my sister dear,
It's welcome news to me;
I woud hae gien her thrice as much
Her lovely face to see.
FOOTNOTES:
[72] F 2 reads, "Bind up your hair, and tie it in your neck," which is deceptive. It was an imperative custom, as is well known, that the married woman should bind up her hair or wear it under a cap, while a maid wore it loose or in a braid; a yard long, like Chaucer's Emily, if she had as much. See D 3, E 3, I 5, and Prior's Danish Ballads, II, 180 f.