‘And welcome your lady hame.

10

‘It is the tall and comely youth,

Sweet John o Hazelgreen;

If we canna see it bridal-day,

It shall be bridal-een.’

D

a. Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 253.
b. Chambers, Scottish Ballads, p. 319.

1

As I went forth to take the air