‘The stalk is wither’d dry, my love,
So will our hearts decay;
So make yourself content, my love,
Till God calls you away.’


[BOOK II]

[35. Hynd Horn]

I

Hynd Horn’s bound, love, and Hynd Horn’s free,
With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;
Where was ye born, or in what countrie?
And the birk and the broom blows bonnie.

II

‘In good greenwood, there I was born,
And all my forbears me beforn.

III