‘The beer is put in a drinking-horn,
The wine in glasses fine,
There’s gold in store between two kings,
When they are fighting keen,
And the twine is between a lady’s two hands
When they are washen clean.’
49. The Twa Brothers.
P. 436, II, 14, III, 381 b. ‘Tell my mother I am married,’ etc.: so in the beautiful Roumanian ‘Miorita,’ Alecsandri, p. 3.
438. A b. ‘The Two Brothers,’ Walks near Edinburgh, by Margaret Warrender, 1890, p. 60. Given to Lady John Scott many years ago by Campbell Riddell, brother of Sir James Riddell of Ardnamurchan.
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