37
‘She was never a whore to me;
Sae let my brother her husband be.’
38
Sae ald Carl Hood was not the dead o ane,
But he was the dead o hale seeventeen.
Note at the end: I have not written the chorus, but Mr Leyden, having it by him, knows how to insert it.
“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 22 d. In the handwriting of William Laidlaw. Scott has written at the head, Earl Bran, another copy.
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Earl Bran’s a wooing gane;