William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
The Bonny Earl of MurrayAnonymous
Y
O where hae ye been?
They hae slain the E
And hae laid him on the green!
And whairfore did ye sae?
I bade you, bring him wi’ you:
But forbade you him to slay!
And he rid at the ring;
And the bonny E
O, he might hae been a King!
And he play’d at the ba’;
And the bonny E
Was the flower amang them a’!
And he played at the gluve!
And the bonny E
O, he was the Queen’s Luve!
Look owre the Castle Downe,
Ere she see the E
Come sounding through the town!