To Jhesu most of myght,
To bryng hys sowlle to the blysse of heven,
For he was a gentyll knyght.
B
a. Herd’s MS., I, 149, II, 30; Herd’s Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 153. b. Scott’s Minstrelsy, I, 31, 1802, “corrected” from Herd, 1776, “by a MS. copy.”
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It fell and about the Lammas time,
When husbandmen do win their hay,
Earl Douglass is to the English woods,
And a’with him to fetch a prey.