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A Scottish Ballad - Clerk SaundersThese are the opening stanzas of an auld Scots ballad "Clerk Saunders". If you want to know what happens you'll have to seek out the whole poem.
Clerk Saunders and may Margaret,
Walk'd owre yon garden green;
And deep and heavy was the love
That fell thir twa between.
'A bed, a bed,' Clerk Saunders said,
'A bed for you and me!'
'Fye na, fye na,' said may Margaret
'Till anes we married be.'
'Then I'll take the sword frae my scabbard
And slowly lift the pin;
And you may swear, and save your aith,
Ye ne'er let Clerk Saunders in.'
'Take you a napkin in your hand,
And tie up baith your bonnie ee'en,
And you may swear, and save your aith,
Ye saw me na since late yestreen.'
It was about the midnight hour,
When they asleep were laid,
When in and came her seven brothers,
Wi' torches burning red;
When in and came her seven brothers,
Wi' torches burning bright:
They said, 'We hae but one sister,
'And behold her lying with a knight!'
Then out and spake the first o'them.............
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