Tom, I would hae loved thee.’
106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men.
P. 429. The fragment printed by Scott was given him by the Ettrick Shepherd. It was printed with no important change except in the last stanza, all of which is the editor’s but the second line. The two lines of stanza 7 are scored through in the MS.
“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 133 b, Abbotsford; in the handwriting of James Hogg.
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My love he built me a bonny bowr,
An cled it a’ wi lily-flowr;
A brawer bowr ye neer did see
Than my true-love he built to me.
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