‘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