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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