Tales From Scottish Ballads

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Elizabeth W. Grierson. Tales From Scottish Ballads

Tales From Scottish Ballads

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THE LOCHMABEN HARPER

THE LAIRD O' LOGIE

KINMONT WILLIE

THE GUDE WALLACE

THE WARLOCK O' OAKWOOD

MUCKLE-MOU'ED MEG

DICK O' THE COW

THE HEIR OF LINNE

BLACK AGNACE OF DUNBAR

THOMAS THE RHYMER

LORD SOULIS

THE BROWNIE OF BLEDNOCK

SIR PATRICK SPENS

YOUNG BEKIE

THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER

HYNDE HORN

THE GAY GOS-HAWK

THE END

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Elizabeth W. Grierson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The young man looked at her in surprise. "Nay, sweet Meg," he said, "but methinks the Christmas junketing hath turned thy brain, for no man can bring a word against me, and I stand high in his Majesty's favour. Someone hath been filling thy ears with old wives' tales."

"But I know thou art in danger," she persisted, wringing her hands in despair when she saw how lightly he took the news. "I do not understand all the court quarrels, for this land is not my land, but I know that my Lord Bothwell hates the King, and that the King distrusts my Lord Bothwell, and, knowing this, can I not see that there is danger in thy having been seen talking to the Earl in a house in the Cowgate? and, moreover, it is said that he gave thee a packet which thou art supposed to have carried hither. Would that I could persuade thee to fly, to take ship at Leith, and cross over to Denmark; my parents would harbour thee till the storm blew past."

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