a. Motherwell’s MS., p. 89; from recitation. b. “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 116, and Sharpe’s Ballad Book, ed. 1880, p. 137, the last stanza.
1
‘He set her on his bonnie black horse,
He set himsel on his good gray naigie;
He has ridden over hills, he has ridden over dales,
And he’s quite awa wi my bonny Peggy.
2
‘Her brow it is brent and her middle it is jimp,
Her arms are long and her fingers slender;