Christs curse light vpon my crowne
If ere my land stand in any ieopardye!
B
a. Buchan’s MSS, I, 40. b. Buchan’s MSS, II, 114. c. Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 112.
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‘The bonny heir, and the well-faird heir,
And the weary heir o Linne,
Yonder he stands at his father’s yetts,
And naebody bids him come in.
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