Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) / Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

by Walter Scott

But he whisper'd the bonnie lassie hersel',

And has her favour won.

But out then cam Lord Lochinvar,

Out frae the English border,

All for to court this bonnie may,

Weil mounted, and in order.

He told her father, he told her mother,

And a' the lave o' her kin;

But he told na the bonnie may hersel',

Till on her wedding e'en.