Balwearie and his train
cam hame weary at een,
Nae voice gied them welcome,
nae light could be seen.
'Open, dear lady,
my castle to me:'
Nae voice gied an answer,
nae voice was to gie.
S.
"Lambkin.... 27 stanzas."
T.
After 5: "The nurse said this, and the false Lantin stabbed the baby. He bribed the nurse to make the lady come down and please the child. It told how he stabbed the baby, what kind of knife he had, and how he put it through the baby."
U. b.
Allingham's copy is principally composed of 14 stanzas of A, 9 of G, 5 of Q, 1 of B. So much of the following stanzas as is in larger type may be regarded as derived, partially or wholly, from the "copy taken down from the mouth of an Irish nurse in the family of a relative of the editor."
6 What care I for Lamkin,
or any of his gang?
I'll keep my doors weel guarded,
my windows all pennd in.'
7 When all the doors were guarded,
and all the windows shut,
There was still one little window,
and that one was forgot.