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Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 3 (of 4)

Volume 3 — DAVIE GELLATLEY'S SONG

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False love, and hast thou play'd me this

In summer among the flowers?

I will repay thee back again

In winter among the showers.

Unless again, again, my love,

Unless you turn again;

As you with other maidens rove,

I'll smile on other men.

The Knight's to the mountain

His bugle to wind;

The Lady's to greenwood

Her garland to bind.

The bower of Burd Ellen

Has moss on the floor,

That the step of Lord William

Be silent and sure.

——W. Scott.

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