A

a. Kinloch MSS, V, 9, in the handwriting of James Beattie. b. Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 199; “from recitation.”

1

O it fell out upon a day,

When Drums was going to ride, O

And there he met with a well-far’d may,

Keeping her flocks on yon side. O

2

‘O fair may, O rare may,

Can not you fancy me?