Or I had lost bonny Margat Irvine.’
D
“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 17; in the handwriting of Richard Heber.
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The guid Earl o Boyn’s awa to Lonon gone,
An a’ his gallan grooms wie him,
But, for a’ the ribbons that hing at her hat,
He has left his fair lady behind him.
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