Weep na mair for me;

The mither that kills her ain bairn

Deserves weel for to dee.’

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a. Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1833, III, 294, made up from various copies. b. Three stanzas (23, 18, 19) in the first edition of the Minstrelsy, 1802, II, 154, from recitation.

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Marie Hamilton’s to the kirk gane,

Wi ribbons in her hair;

The king thought mair o Marie Hamilton

Than ony that were there.