As ever my eyes did see.
With shoulders broad and arms long,
Most comely to be seen;’
And still she lout the tears doun fa
For Jock of Haselgreen.
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DUGALL QUIN
‘Dugall Quin,’ The Old Lady’s MS. Collection, No 27.
In this little ballad, which has barely story enough to be so called, Dugald Quin, a Highlander, who seems to give himself out as a man in very humble circumstances, induces Lizzie Menzies, a young lady who appears to have nine maids at her command, to follow him, regardless of her father’s opposition. She cannot resist his merry winking eyes. After she has cast in her lot with his, he promises her nine mills (to match the nine maids), and to make her lady of Garlogie. The old lady minutes at the end of her copy that “it was the Marquis of Huntly.”
One version of ‘Rob Roy,’ No 225, I, 8, has a stanza like 2.