Note 635 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
London, 1811, p. 420. See also Ritson, Scottish Song, I. xxvi, f.
Maydens of Englande, sore may you mourne
For your lemmans ye have lost at Bannockisburne!
With heve a lowe.
What, weeneth the King of England
So soone to have won Scotland!
With rumbylowe.
This refrain, as will be seen, is a kind of water-chorus.