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ings, merry-makings, feuds, and fights, which | however, cannot boast of many trees during the must have taken place amongst such a population, and we shall find that it would produce a stock of materials for the poet or the artist, that would be perfectly exhaustless.

first twenty miles of its course, but its hills are greener, and its valleys are wider and fitter for cultivation than those of the Yarrow. A little way above its junction with the latter stream, its sides are skirted with natural wood, its plains become more extensive and fertile, and the adjoining hills are covered with planted wood. On the side of the Ettrick, opposite to Thirlstane, are the remains of the tower of Gamescleuch. A genealogy of the Scotts, in the possession of Lord Napier, tells us that " John Scott, of Thirlstane, married a daughter of Scott of Allanhaugh, by

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But to come down to the plain matter of fact as it now stands. Instead of the endless woodland which once covered the country, Dr. Douglas, in his view of Selkirkshire, published in 1798, says "In stating the number of acres in wood at 2,000, I have followed Mr. Johnston. The best information which I could collect from the conversation of gentlemen and farmers, in different corners, made it rather less." The general appear-whom he had four sons, Robert, his heir, and ance of the country is a succession of green and bare hills, gradually rising one above another in height. Dr. Douglas says " Their naked and bleak aspect, when seen at a distance in cloudy weather, is lost upon riding among them, and beholding the rich sward with which they are covered, the clear streams which issue from their sides, the fleecy flocks browsing on their green pastures, and their lambs frisking around. The animation of the scene is heightened by patches of brushwood and small clumps of trees, with which, in a few places, the hills are adorned-the fertility of the vales, by which they are separated from each other—and the romantic banks of the

waters which wash their bases."

But now let us, in the first place, give our attention to the Ettrick, and in so doing let us not forget that it gives origin to the old Scottish song, "Ettrick Banks"

"On Ettrick's banks, ae simmer night,
At gloaming when the sheep cam' hame,
I met my lassie, braw and tight,

While wand'ring through the mist her lane.
My heart grew light, I wanted lang
To tell my lassie a' my mind,
And never till this happy hour,
A canny meeting could I find." &c.

The Ettrick rises, as we are told, from among a few rushes, between Loch-fell and Capel-fell, on the south side of a range of hills, which may be called “the back-bone of the country," at a point two miles above Potburn, which is said to be the highest situated farm-house above the sea in the south of Scotland. Mr. Stoddart tells us that “Ettrick abounds in nice trout, weighing, on the average, a quarter of a pound, but I have killed them occasionally, below Thirlestane, upwards of a pound, and recollect seeing one taken there nearly three times that weight. From the burns which empty themselves in the upper districts, I have known my friend John Wilson, Jun., of Elhray, to capture, with the worm, twelve dozen in the course of a forenoon. Sea-trout, both the whitling and the bull species, ascend the Ettrick in November, sometimes in great numbers-as many as three score have been slaughtered, by means of the leister, in one night, out of a single pool. The true salmon killed on an occasion of this sort are comparatively few."

Lord Napier's ancient residence of Thirlstane tower, with its few venerable ash trees and its extensive plantations, give an immediate interest to this highly elevated part of its banks. Ettrick,

Simon, called Long-spear, who was tutor of Thirlstane, and built the tower of Gamescleuch." It soon afterwards receives two tributaries from the right, a small rivulet called Timah, and the Rankle-burn, which is not only celebrated by the song of the "Maid of Rankle-burn," but which is likewise rendered remarkable by its being the place where the progenitors of the Buccleuch family first took up their residence-when

old Buccleuch the name did gain, When in the cleuch the buck was ta'en."

"Two

The legend, as told in the notes to the "Lay of
the Last Minstrel," simply states that,
brethren, natives of Galloway, having been
banished from that country, for a riot or insur-
rection, came to Rankle-burn, in Ettrick forest,
where the keeper, whose name was Brydone,
received them joyfully, on account of their skill
in winding the horn, and in the other mysteries
of the chase. Kenneth Mac Alpin, then king of
Scotland, came soon after to hunt in the Royal
forest, and pursued a buck from Ettrick-heuch
to the glen now called Buck-cleuch, about two
miles above the junction of the Rankle-burn with
the river Ettrick. Here the stag stood at bay ;
and the king and his attendants, who followed on
horseback, were thrown out by the steepness of
the hill and the morass. John, one of the bre-
thren from Galloway, had followed the chase on
foot, and now coming in, seized the buck by the
horns, and, being a man of great strength and
activity, threw him on his back, and ran with his
burden about a mile up the steep hill, to a place
called Cracra-cross, where Kenneth had halted,
and laid the buck at the sovereign's feet.”—

"The deer being cureed in that place,
At his majesty's demand,
Then John of Galloway ran apace,
And fetched water in his hand.
The king did wash into a dish,
And Galloway John he wot;
He said, thy name now after this
Shall ever be called John Scott.
The forest and the deer therein,
We commit to thy hand;

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For thou shalt sure the ranger be,
If thou obey command.

And for the buck thou stoutly brought
To us up that steep heuch,

Thy designation ever shall

Be John Scott in Buccleuch.

In Scotland no Buccleuch was then,
Before the buck in the cleuch was slain ;

Night's men at first they did appear,

Because moon and stars in their arms they bear.
Their crest, supporters, and hunting horn,
Show their beginning from hunting came;
Their name, and style, and book doth say,
John gained them both into one day."

by all the savage accessories of Alpine scenery,
peaked mountains, precipitous cliffs, valleys en-
cumbered by gigantic fragments of rock, and al-
together devoid of verdure, roaring cataracts and
thundering streams, and dark and hardly fathom-
able lakes, that silently reflected the beetling
cliffs and the shred of sky that hung over them;
but never before, at so high an elevation, did we
meet with so perfect an emblem of simple and
unadorned beauty, silently sleeping in the lap of
Nature. A crystalline sheet of water poured out
to so great an extent, amidst pastoral and com-
paratively green hills, and not the trace of a
dwelling to remind us that there might be other
human beings there as well as ourselves. How
perfectly descriptive of the peacefulness of this
lovely scene are these two simple lines of Words-
worth:-

"The swan on sweet St. Mary's Lake
Floats double, swan and shadow."

The river itself rises from the hills which form

Immediately opposite to the junction of the Rankle-burn with the Ettrick, appear the grey ruins of the old tower of Tushielaw. They stand on the side of a hill, near the road that runs up the Ettrick. It was long the stronghold of a powerful family of the name of Scott, who were famous free-booters, or border-riders, or moss-troopers, which epithets, we beg our readers to believe, are meant by us to convey the highest compliments we can pay them. We have already had occasion to notice the romantic legend, regarding the daughter of the Earl of March, who met with the son of the Laird of Tushielaw in Ettrick forest-of the love that arose between them-of the manner in which it was crossed-and the sad fate of the lady, who died of a broken heart just as her fondest wishes appeared to be about to be realised. the boundary of Dumfries-shire; and finding its We earnestly hope that Adam Scott, son of David way into the upper and smaller lake called the Scott, of Tushielaw, was not the young knight of Loch of the Lowes, it speedily passes from it into the legend, for he (Adam) bore the very distin- the upper part of St. Mary's Loch, which is seven guished name of "King of the Thieves." His and a half miles in circumference, its greatest fate too was somewhat summary, and rather unro-depth being about thirty fathoms. The Meggat mantic, for, in the famous excursion which King James V. made through the Border-with the intention of ridding himself and his country of some of the great characters who were most remarkable for keeping up its predatory fame-he came suddenly to Tushielaw one morning before breakfast, and hanged King Adam over the horizontal bough of an old ash tree that grew over his own gate, all along the bark of which were to be felt and seen various nicks and hollows, formed by the ropes on which many an unhappy wretch had been hanged by the remorseless Tushielaw himself.

We must not forget to record that, in an old house not far from Ettrick Church, we are informed by James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, himself, that he first drew the breath of life:

"Here first I saw the rising morn;
Here first my infant mind unfurled,
To judge this spot, where I was born,
The very centre of the world."

At Newhouse, the Ettrick has worn its way through a deep ravine, where the rocks rise almost perpendicularly, covered with furze, and overhung with copsewood, presenting rather a wild scene; but, otherwise, there is little interesting in this river, until after it has received the Yarrow.

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For our parts, never shall we forget the day when we made our happy excursion, from Selkirk, to trace this classical and musical stream to its We shall not stop at present to notice the delight we enjoyed in our drive up the vale of the Yarrow, for, as our custom is, in following out our present plan, to trace those tributary and other streams downwards, we shall begin by noting our sensations on reaching the lone St. Mary's Loch and the Loch of the Lowes. We have been great wanderers in our day, and we have looked upon scenes as lonely, accompanied

water, which comes in from the left as a tributary
to St. Mary's Lake, is a stream of considerable
importance. We may as well proceed at once to
notice the angling which is afforded by this
We find that Mr. Stoddart
neighbourhood.
says that the Yarrow, "as an angling stream,
is of good repute, and contains nice trout, weigh-
ing from one and a half pound downwards. Near
the loch the average is about half a pound, and I
have frequently taken two or three dozen of that
weight.

The woodcock wing and mouse fur body form a favourite fly. Minnow, also, during summer is highly attractive in some of the streams. In Douglass burn are numbers of small trout. St. Mary's Loch is well stocked with trout averaging half a pound. I have often, however, killed them a great deal heavier, and recollect, on the Bourhope side, encreeling a yellow trout that measured nearly twenty inches in length. Such an occurrence, however, is extremely rare. Besides trout, St. Mary's Loch contains pike and perch; the former, of late years, are much on the increase, whereas in the Loch of the Lowes, which is connected with it by a stream not fifty yards in length, they are manifestly falling off in numbers. About sixteen years ago, when I first angled in these lochs, the upper one contained no trout whatsoever, and the under one, if any, few pike. Now, the upper one, on the south side, has abundance of trout, and these better in quality than what are met with in the Lower Lake. In an edible point of view, the pike of the above lochs are very superior to the fish of this description generally met with, and attain to a great size. I recollect killing one that weighed nineteen pounds. My implement was a small trouting-rod, and when I brought the fish to bank, there was only a strand composed of three horse hairs left near the hook to support him, the other

two strands of the winch line having given way. Discharging themselves into these lochs, are several streams, the largest of which is the Meggat water an excellent summer trouting river, where I have caught fish upwards of two pounds in weight. At the foot of the Meggat, close to where it enters St. Mary's Loch, I recollect, on the occasion of a flood, killing with the fly three panniers full of trout, each containing a stone weight and upwards, in the course of a day. These were all taken out of a space of water not exceeding half a mile. Another large capture made by me on this stream took place while in company with the Ettrick Shepherd, and the ereelfuls we respectively emptied out on arriving at Henderland (we had fished down during a small flood from the head of Winterhope burn, a course of four or five miles), would have astonished even a Tweedside adept. The Chapelhope burns and Corseclough, which enter the Loch of the Lowes, also con • numerous trout. There are plenty of porch in the upper lake, and the lower one is occasionally visited by salmon and bulltrout. I have caught both of these fish with loch flies from the margin, but never met with one in an edible condition." We carried fishing-rods and tackle with us, and had determined to devote at least an hour or two to serious angling, but the beauty and novelty of the scenery made us quite unfit to do anything of the sort, or, in short, to do anything but enjoy Nature. We must mention, however, that, notwithstanding appearances, there is one soiltary house, which stands between the two Lakes, where a brother of the angle may find comfortable quarters. It is not an inn, but a cottage, inhabited by Mrs. Richardson, who is always willing to extend her hospitality to anglers, and to do all in her power to make them comfortable. An1, 0! what a place to spend some quiet days, in the full enjoyment of solitary thought; and with what feeling does Sir Walter Scott allude to this:

"Oft in my mind such thoughts awake,
By lone Salt Mary's silent lake;
Thou know's it well--nor fen, ror sedge
Pellute the pure lake's crystal edge;
Abrup and Cheer the mountains sink
At once upon the level brink;
And just a trace of silver sand
Marks where the water meets the land.
Far in the zirror bright and blue,
Each bill's huge outline you may view;
Shaggy with beath, but lon ly Fare,
Nor tree, nor bush, nor brake is there,
Save where, of land, yon slender line
Bears thwart the lake the scattered pine.
Yet even this nakedness has power,
And aids the feeling of the hour;
Nor thicket, dell, nor copse you spy,
Where living thing concealed might lie;
Nor point, retiring, hides a dell,
Where swain or woodman lone might dwell.
There's nothing left to Fancy's guess,
You see that all is loneliness;
And silence aids-though the steep hills
Send to the lake a thousand rills;
In summer tide, so soft they weep,
The sound but lulls the ear asleep;
Your horse's hoof-tread sound's too rude,
So stilly is the solitude.
Nought living meets the eye or ear,
But well I ween the dead are near;

For though, in feudal strife, a foe
Hath laid Our Lady's Chapel low,
Yet still beneath the hallowed soil,
The peasant rests him from his toil,
And dying bids his bones be laid
Where erst his simple fathers pray'd."

Again, to indulge our fancy in recalling that which we consider to be the wild and romantic state of this country, let us imagine the forest stretching itself over every part of this scene-let us have the wild swans sweeping in graceful evolutions over the surface of the lake, and occasionally drooping in their flight, in order to skim more closely over its transparent bosom-let us have the much venerated Chapel of St. Mary, which stood on its eastern side, as entire as it was previous to its destruction by the Clan Scott, in their feud with the Cranstons-let us have in it its holy clerks and their assistants, the ruins of whose dwellings are still discernible—let us have the restoration of those Peel Towers of which the vestiges of one or two of some importance still remain, especially that of Dryhope, near the lower extremity of the lake-and let us have their inmates produced before us as they were, and full of strange and strongly-agitating passions-let us have the urus, the great palmated stag, and the red deer restored-and let us, for a spice of terror, have the wolf, the mountain boar, and other such animals, added to our objects of interest-and then let us set poets, artists, and fiction-mongers to work upon the bill of fare we have provided for them, to write or paint as they best can. The names of Ox-cleuch, Deer-law, Hart-leap, Hyndhope, Fawn-burn, Wolf-cleuch, Brock-hill, Swinebrae, Cat-slack, &c., which still exist, many of them belonging to different places, are sufficient to prove how universally these animals inhabited the forest.

We have already noticed that the Meggat Water, coming in from the left, yields a large contribution to St. Mary's Lake. On its banks are the vestiges of the castle of Henderland, which, with the surrounding estate, is the property of our much valued friend, William Murray, Esq., of Henderland. A mountain torrent, called Henderland Burn, rushes impetuously from the hills, through a rocky chasm called the Dow-glen, and passes near the site of the tower. This tower was once the stronghold of a famous freebooter called Cockburne of Henderland, and the position, besides being apparently unapproachable by the strong hand of legal power, must have been peculiarly favourable for making inroads into the cultivated districts, both to the south and the north. We have recently had occasion to notice the summary manner in which James V., in his progress through the Borders, dealt with Adam Scott of Tushielaw. The king remained only to satisfy himself that he had seen the last dying struggle of that worthy, when he took a path over the mountains which separate the vale of Ettrick from the head of Yarrow, which has ever since borne the name of the "King's Road." The monarch arrived so suddenly at Henderland, that he surprised Cockburne sitting at dinner, and without one moment's delay, he ordered him to be

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taken out and hanged before his own door. Filled | which possesses the true character of border with horror, his wife fled to a place still called the Lady's Seat, where the roar of the foaming cataract might drown the tumultuous noise, which attended the execution of her beloved husband. The following old ballad given in the Border minstrelsy, is said to be her "Lament :" "My love he built me a bonny bower, And clad it a' wi' lylie flower, A brawer bower ye ne'er did see, Than my true love he built for me. "There came a man, by middle day,

He spied his sport, and went away;
And brought the king that very night,
Who brake my bower, and slew my knight.
"He slew my knight, to me so dear;

He slew my knight, and poined his gear;
My servants all for life did flee,
And left me in extremitie.

"I sewed his sheet, making my mane;
I watched the corpse, myself alane;
I watched his body, night and day;
No living creature came that way.
"I took his body on my back,

And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat;
I digged a grave and laid him in,
And happed him with the sod sae green.

"But think na' ve my heart was sair,

When I laid the moul' on his yellow hair;
O think na' ye my heart was wae,
When I turued about, awa' to gue?

"Nae living man I'll love again,

Since that my lovely knight is slain;
Wi' ae lock of his yellow hair

I'll chain my heart for ever mair."

The monument of this unfortunate knight and his lady, consisting of a large stone broken into three parts, still lies in the deserted burial-place that surrounded the chapel of the castle, with this inscription on it-"Here lyes Perys of Cokburne and his Wyfe Marjory."

Near to the point where the Kirkstead Burn
joins the lower end of the lake are the ruins of
Dryhope Tower, celebrated as the birth-place of
Mary Scott, daughter of Philip Scott, of Dryhope.
She was rendered famous by the traditional
name of the Flower of Yarrow. She was married
to Walter Scott of Harden, who was as renowned
for his exploits as a bold Border-rider, as she was
for her beauty. We know not whether the well-
known ballad should be considered as dedicated
to her, or to some subsequent Flower of Yarrow,
for we believe that there were others, after her
time.
We certainly can hardly conceive the
rough, moss-trooping Harden dissolving into such
verses as these :-

"Happy's the love which meets return,
When in soft flame souls equal burn,
But words are wanting to discover,

The torments of a hopeless lover.

Ye registers of Heaven relate,
Whilst noting o'er the rolis of fate,
Did you there see me marked to marrow
Mary Scott the Flower of Yarrow ?"

And believing, as we do, that the verses are the
production of a more modern and less romantic
age, we shall spare our readers from the inflic-
tion of any more of them; whilst, at the same
time, we give them the assurance, from our
own experience, that they pass very well when
sung to the simple melody to which they belong,

Douglass, or the Dhu Glass, the black and grey water, is the next tributary of consequence. descends from the left, from the Blackhouse Heights, which rise 2,370 feet above the sea, and it joins the Yarrow immediately after passing a craggy rock, called the Douglass Craig. The remains of the ancient tower of Blackhouse, stand in this wild and solitary glen. The building appears to have been square, with a circular turret at one angle for carrying up the staircase, and flanking the entrance. From this ancient tower, Lady Margaret Douglass was carried off by her lover, which gave rise to that sad, but wellauthenticated, legend which is told in the ballad called, "The Douglas Tragedy."

"Rise up, rise up, now Lord Douglas,' she says,
And put on your armour so bright,
Let it never be said that a daughter of thine
Was married to a Lord under night.

"Rise up, rise up, my seven bold sons,
And put on your armour so bright,
And take better care of your younger sister,
For your eldest's awa' the last night.'

"He's mounted her on a milk-white steed,
And himself on a dapple grey,

With a bugelet born bung down by his side,
And lightly they rode away.

"Lord William looket o'er his left shoulder,
To see what he could see,

And there he spyed her seven brethren bold,
Come riding o'er the lee.

"Light down, light down, Lady Margret,' he said,
And hold my steed in your hand,
Until that against your seven brethren bold,
And your Father, I make a stand.'

"She held his steed in her milk-white hand,
And never shed one tear,

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Until that she saw her seven brethern fa',

And her father hard fighting, who loved her so dear.

Oh, hold your hand, Lord William' she said, For your strokes they are wondrous sair; True lovers I can get mony a ane,

But a father I can never get mair.'

"O, she's ta'en ont her handkerchief,
It was o' the Holland sae fine,
And aye she dighted her father's bloody wounds,
That were redder than the wine.

"O chuse, O chuse, Lady Margret,' he said,
O whether will ye gang or bide?'
'I'll gang, I'll gang, Lord William,' she said,
For you have left me no other guide.'
"He's lifted her on a milk-white steed,
And himself on a dapple grey,
With a bugelet-horn hung down by his side,
And slowly they baith rode away.

"O they rade on, and on they rade,
Aud a' by the light of the moon,
Until they came to yon wan water,
And there they lighted down.
"They lighted down to tak' a drink

Of the spring that ran sae clear;

And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood,
And sair she 'gan to fear.

"Hold up, hold up, Lord William,' she says,

For I fear that you are slain!

"Tis naething but shadow of my scarlet cloak,
That shines in the water sae plain.'

"O they rode on, and on they rode,
And a' by the light of the moon,
Until they cam' to his mother's ha' door,
And there they lighted down.

"Get up, get up, lady mother,' he says,

Get up and let me in!

Get up, get up, lady mother,' he says, For this night my fair lady I've win. "O mak' my bed, lady mother,' he says, 'O mak' it braid and deep!

And lay Lady Margret close at my back,
And the sounder I will sleep.'

"Lord William was dead long ere midnight,
Lady Margret long ere day-
And all true lovers that gang thegither,
May they have mair luck than they.

"Lord William was buried in St. Marie's kirk,
Lady Margret in Marie's quire,

Out o' the lady's grave grew a bonny red rose,
And out o' the knight's a brier.

"And they twa met, and they twa plat,
And fain they wad be near,

And a' the warld might ken right weel,
They were twa lovers dear.

But bye and rade the Black Douglas,
And wow but he was rough!
For he pulled up the bonny brier,

And flang't in St. Marie's loch."

Seven large stones, erected on the neighbouring heights of Blackhouse, mark the spot where the seven brethren were slain, and the Douglas burn is said to be the stream at which the lovers stopped to drink.

Opposite to the Douglas water, that of Altrive comes in from the right. Here it was that James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, had his small farm, which, we believe, his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch generously gave him rent-free, and here he accordingly lived until his death. Nothing can be more retired, or thoroughly pastoral-looking, than the country around the kirk, manse, and bridge of Yarrow, and it is impossible for a stranger, who may be in the habit of exercising his reflective powers as he journeys along, to pass by this simple House of God, humbly reared, as it is, among these extensive wilds, without feeling how calm, and pure, and uncontaminated with worldly thought and the bustle of busy life, must be-or, at least, ought to be-the worship that is likely to arise from beneath its grey roof. This is, indeed, a peaceful scene now; but, from various appearances, as well as traditions, this particular neighbourhood would seem to have frequently witnessed bloody and fatal feuds. It must be a charming place of temporary sojourn for the angler, for we took occasion to lean over the bridge, and narrowly to inspect the river running under it, when we discovered many fine trouts, and some of them of a very large size. The new statistical account says, that "salmon, grilse, whitling, trout, eels, par, minnows, barbels, and sticklebacks, tenant the rivers." But we suspect that few clean salmon or grilses get as high as this, in such condition as to afford good sport to the angler, or good food to man. It is remarkable that lampreys used to come up here to spawn, and, if we do not mistake, we ourselves saw several sticking to the stones, near the bridge, like floating pieces of tangle.

It would seem that two sanguinary and fatal combats took place hereabouts, in ancient times, and it appears to be very difficult to determine, to which of the two the old ballad, called the

"Dowie Dens of Yarrow," was, in reality, dedicated. A certain knight, of the name of Scott, who was probably John, sixth son of the laird of Harden, who resided at Kirkhope, or Oakwood Castle, was murdered hereabouts by his kinsmen, the Scotts of Gilman's-cleuch. Again, in a spot called Annan's Treat, a huge monumental stone, with an eligible inscription, was discovered, which is supposed to record the event of a combat, in which the male ancestor of the present Lord Napier was slain. And then two tall unhewn stones are erected on Annan's Treat, about eighty yards distant from each other, which the smallest child tending a cow will tell you, mark the spot where lie the twa Lords, who were slain in single fight. Scott tells us, that "Tradition affirms, that, be the hero of the song whom he may, he was murdered by the brother, either of his wife, or betrothed bride. The alleged cause of malice was the lady's father having proposed to endow her with the half of his property, upon her marriage with a warrior of such renown. of the murderer is said to have been Annan, and the place of the combat is still called Annan's Treat."

"Late at e'en, drinking the wine.

And ere they paid the lawing,
They set a combat them between,

To fight it in the dawing.
"Oh stay at hame, my noble lord,

Oh stay at hame, my marrow!
My cruel brother will you betray,

On the dowie houms of Yarrow." "Oh fare ye weel, my ladye gaye!

Oh fare ye weel, my Sarah!"
For I maun gae, though I ne'er return,
Frae the dowie banks of Yarrow.'

"She kissed his cheek, she kaimed his hair, As oft she had done before, 0;

She belted him with his noble brand,
And he's away to Yarrow.

"As he gaed up the Tinnis bank,

The name

I wot he gaed wi' sorrow, Till down in a den, he spied nine armed men, On the dowie houms of Yarrow.

"Oh come ye here to part your land,

The bonny forest thorough?
Or come ye here to wield your brand,
On the dowie houms of Yarrow?'
"I come not here to part my land,

And neither to beg nor borrow;
I come to wield my noble brand,
On the bonny banks of Yarrow.
"If I see all, ye're nine to ane;

And that's an unequal marrow; Yet will I fight while lasts my brand. On the bonny banks of Yarrow.'

"Four has he hurt, and five has slain,

On the bloody bracs of Yarrow,
Till that stubborn knight came him behind,
And run his body thorough.
"Gae hame, gae hame, good-brother John,
And tell your sister, Sarah,
To come and lift her leafu' lord;
He's sleeping sound on Yarrow.'
"Yestreen, I dreamed a doleful dream,
I fear there will be sorrow;

I dreamed I pou'd the heather green,
Wi' my true love, on Yarrow.
"O gentle wind, that bloweth south,
From where my love repaireth,

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