The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)

by Unknown

He made them fast to fa.

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Now let us a’ for Lesly pray,

And his brave company,

For they hae vanquishd great Montrose,

Our cruel enemy.

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4⁴. Var. That we should take a dram: Scott. Probably a jocose suggestion.

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THE BARON OF BRACKLEY

A. a. ‘The Baronne of Braikley,’ [Alexander Laing’s] Scarce Ancient Ballads, 1822, p. 9. b. ‘The Baron of Braikley,’ Buchan’s Gleanings, 1825, p. 68. c. ‘The Barrone of Brackley,’ The New Deeside Guide, by James Brown (pseudonym for Joseph Robertson), Aberdeen, [1832[^[60]]], p. 46.