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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)

Note 13 — 194 THE LAIRD OF WARISTON

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The day before the execution Lady Wariston desired to see her infant son. The minister feared lest the sight of him should make her wae to leave him, but she assured that the contrair should be seen, took the child in her arms, kissed him, blessed him, and recommended him to the Lord’s care, and sent him away again without taking of any sorrow. Memorial, p. IX.

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