‘Annan Water,’ a ballad in which a lover is drowned on his way to visit his mistress, is given in an appendix.


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Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, II, 110, 1733.

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‘Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair,

And Willy’s wondrous bony,

And Willy heght to marry me,

Gin eer he marryd ony.

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