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Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 18; Jamieson, in The Scots Magazine, 1803, LXV, 698, stanzas 1, 3.
1 Gil Morrice sat in silver wood,
He whistled and he sang:
'Whar sall I get a bonny boy
My errand for to gang?'
2 He ca'd his foster-brither Willie:
'Come, win ye hose and shoon,
And gae unto Lord Barnard's ha,
And bid his lady come.'
* * * * *
3 And she has taen the bloody head,
And cast it i the brim,
Syne gathered up her robes o green,
And fast she followed him.
A.
11. siluen: compare 73, 83, 143, 153, etc.