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

No no man no may bithink,

No no maister deuine;

That is ymade forsoth ywis.

Under the brigge of paradis,

Halvendel the pine.

So the dominical ous telle,

That is the pure entrae of helle,

Seine Poule berth witnesse;[^[A]]

Whoso falleth of the brigge adown,

Of him nis no redempcioun,