Dang—defeated.
Scug—shelter or expiate.
LADY ANNE.
This ballad was communicated to me by Mr Kirkpatrick Sharpe of Hoddom, who mentions having copied it from an old magazine. Although it has probably received some modern corrections, the general turn seems to be ancient, and corresponds with that of a fragment, containing the following verses, which I have often heard sung in my childhood:—
She set her back against a thorn,
And there she has her young son borne;