English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 25. The Bonny Earl of Murray |
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| YE Highlands, and ye Lawlands, | |
| Oh where have you been? | |
| They have slain the Earl of Murray, | |
| And they layd him on the green. | |
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| “Now wae 1 be to thee, Huntly! | 5 |
| And wherefore did you 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, | |
| Oh he might have been a king! | |
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| He was a braw gallant, | |
| And he playd 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 glove; | |
| And the bonny Earl of Murray, | |
| Oh he was the Queen’s love! | 20 |
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| Oh lang will his lady | |
| Look oer the castle Down, | |
| Eer she see the Earl of Murray | |
| Come sounding thro the town! | |
| Eer she, etc. | 25 |
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