There waur four-an-twenty o the noblest lords
That Lonnon could aford him,
A’ clead in black frae the saidle to the hat,
To convey the corpse o Peggy Ewan.
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‘I’d rather hae lost a’ the lands o Aboyne
Than lost my pretty Peggy Ewan.’
F
Motherwell’s MS., p. 635; “from the recitation of Margaret Black, wife of Archie Black, sailor in Ayr, a native of Aberdeenshire.”