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SIR HUGH OF LINCOLN, 



Percy. 



1765. 

 The rain rins doun through Mirry-land* toune, 



Sae dois it doun the Pa : * 

 Sae dois the lads of Mirry-laud toune, 



Quhan they play at the ha". 



Than out and cam the Jewis dochter, 

 Said, " Will ye cum in and dine?" 



" I winnae cum in, I cannae cum in. 

 Without my play feres nine." 



Scho powd an apple reid and white 

 To intice the zong thing in ; 



Scho powd an apple white and reid, 

 And that the sweite bairne did win. 



And scho has taine out a little pen-knife, 



And low down by her gair, 

 Scho has twin'd the zong thing and his life : 



A word he nevir spak raair. 



And out and cam the thick, thick bluid, 



And out and cam the thin ; 

 And out and cam the bonny herts bluid ! 



Thair was nae life left in. 



* Supposed to be Milan and the Po. 



Jamieson. 

 1806. 

 Four and twenty bonny boys 



Were playing at the ba' ; 

 And by it came him, sweet Sir Hugh, 

 And he played o'er them a". 



He kick'd the ba' wi' his right foot 



And catch'd it wi' his knee ; 

 And throuch-and-thro the Jew's window, 



He gar'd the bonny ba' flee. 



He's doen him to the Jew's castell, 



And walk'd it round about ; 

 And there he saw the Jew's daughter 



At the window looking out. 



" Throw down the ba' ye Jew's daughter, 



Throw down the ba' to me ! " 

 " Never a bit," S3ys the Jew's daughter, 



" Till up to me come ye." 



" How will I come up ? How can I come i 



How can I come to thee 1 

 For as ye did to my auld father 



The same ye'll do to me " 



She's gane till her father's garden, 

 And pu'd an apple red and green ; 



'Twas a' to wyle him, sweet Sir Hugh, 

 And to entice him in. 



She's led him in through ae dark door. 

 And sae has she through nine ; 



She's laid him on a dressing table, 

 And stickil him like a swine. 



And first came out the thick, thick blood, 



And syne came out the thin; 

 And syne came out the bonny heart's blo< 



There was nae mair within. 



