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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

The Bonny Earl of Murray

Anonymous

YE Highlands, and ye Lawlands!

O where hae ye been?

They hae slain the EARL OF MURRAY:

And hae laid him on the green!

Now wae be to thee, HUNTLEY!

And whairfore did ye sae?

I bade you, bring him wi’ you:

But forbade you him to slay!

He was a braw gallant,

And he rid at the ring;

And the bonny EARL OF MURRAY,

O, he might hae been a King!

He was a braw gallant,

And he play’d at the ba’;

And the bonny EARL OF MURRAY

Was the flower amang them a’!

He was a braw gallant,

And he played at the gluve!

And the bonny EARL OF MURRAY,

O, he was the Queen’s Luve!

O lang will his Lady

Look owre the Castle Downe,

Ere she see the EARL OF MURRAY

Come sounding through the town!