The Book of Old English Ballads by George Wharton Edwards
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"O haud your tongue," her father says, "And let be a' your sorrow; I'll wed you to a better lord Than him ye lost on Yarrow." "O haud your tongue, father," she says, "Far warse ye mak' my sorrow; A better lord could never be Than him that lies on Yarrow." She kiss'd his lips, she kaim'd his hair, As aft she had dune before, O; And there wi' grief her heart did break, Upon the banks o' Yarrow. Hugh of Lincoln SHOWING THE CRUELTY OF A JEW'S DAUGHTER Four and twenty bonny boys Were playing at the ba', And up it stands him sweet Sir Hugh, |
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