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I
MY love he built me a bonny bower, | |
| And clad it a’ wi’ lilye flour; | |
| A brawer bower ye ne’er did see, | |
| Than my true love he built for me. | |
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II
There came a man, by middle day, | 5 |
| He spied his sport, and went away; | |
| And brought the King that very night, | |
| Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. | |
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III
He slew my knight, to me sae dear; | |
| He slew my knight, and poin’d his gear; | 10 |
| My servants all for life did flee, | |
| And left me in extremitie. | |
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IV
I sew’d his sheet, making my mane; | |
| I watch’d the corpse, myself alane; | |
| I watch’d his body, night and day; | 15 |
| No living creature came that way. | |
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V
I took his body on my back, | |
| And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat; | |
| I digg’d a grave, and laid him in, | |
| And happ’d him with the sod sae green. | 20 |
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VI
But think na ye my heart was sair, | |
| When I laid the moul’ on his yellow hair; | |
| O think na ye my heart was wae, | |
| When I turn’d about, away to gae? | |
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VII
Nae living man I’ll love again, | 25 |
| Since that my lovely knight is slain; | |
| Wi’ ae lock of his yellow hair | |
| I’ll chain my heart for evermair. | |
| | | GLOSS: poin’d] made forfeit. |
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