| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | The Bonny Earl of Murray | | Anonymous |
| | | YE Highlands, and ye Lawlands! | |
| O where hae ye been? | |
| They hae slain the EARL OF MURRAY: | |
| And hae laid him on the green! | |
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| Now wae be to thee, HUNTLEY! | 5 |
| And whairfore did ye sae? | |
| I bade you, bring him wi’ you: | |
| But forbade you him to slay! | |
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| He was a braw gallant, | |
| And he rid at the ring; | 10 |
| And the bonny EARL OF MURRAY, | |
| O, he might hae been a King! | |
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| He was a braw gallant, | |
| And he play’d at the ba’; | |
| And the bonny EARL OF MURRAY | 15 |
| Was the flower amang them a’! | |
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| He was a braw gallant, | |
| And he played at the gluve! | |
| And the bonny EARL OF MURRAY, | |
| O, he was the Queen’s Luve! | 20 |
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| O lang will his Lady | |
| Look owre the Castle Downe, | |
| Ere she see the EARL OF MURRAY | |
| Come sounding through the town! | | | | |
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