8 'O here am I, a little wee boy,
That will won meat and fee,
That will gae on to Seaton's yetts,
And bring your mother to thee.'
9 Then he is on to Seaton's yetts,
As fast as gang could he;
Says, Ye must come to Darlington,
Your daughter for to see.
10 But when she came to Darlington,
Where there was little pride,
The scobbs were in the lady's mouth,
The sharp sheer in her side.
11 Darlington stood on the stair,
And gart the gowd rings flee:
'My ha's and bowers and a' shall gae waste,
If my bonny love die for me.'
12 'O had your tongue, Lord Darlington,
Let a' your folly be;
I boor the bird within my sides,
I'll suffer her to die.
13 'But he that marries my daughter,
I think he is a fool;
If he marries her at Candlemas,
She'll be frae him ere Yule.
14 'I had seven ance in companie,
This night I go my lane;
And when I come to Clyde's water,
I wish that I may drown.'
A.
The copy of the garland here used is much more correct than the other two, but still not carefully printed. The garland gives the ballad in eight stanzas of eight verses.