An bonnie Jeanie Melville was scarce sixteen years old.


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a. Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 188. b. Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 54.

1

There were four-and-twenty ladies dined i the Queen’s ha,

And Jean o Bethelnie was the flower o them a’.

2

Four-and-twenty gentlemen rode thro Banchory fair,

But bonny Glenlogie was the flower that was there.