Translated from Motherwell by Wolff, Halle der Völker, I, 73.

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Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1833, III, 128, “as recited by a gentleman residing near Biggar.”

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I will sing, if ye will hearken,

If ye will hearken unto me;

The king has taen a poor prisoner,

The wanton laird o Young Logie.

2

Young Logie’s laid in Edinburgh chapel,