O up and spak the bonnie mermaid,
Wi the glass and the kaim in her hand;
‘Reek about, reek about, ye mariners all,
For ye’re not very far from the land.’
F.
32. was she.
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THE WYLIE WIFE OF THE HIE TOUN HIE
A. ‘My lady ye shall be,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Thomas Wilkie’s MS., p. 74, Abbotsford.
B. John Struthers, The British Minstrel, 1821, I, XXV.