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YOUNG BEARWELL. ,
" A fragment, and now printed in the hope that the remainder of it may hereafter be recovered. From circumstances, one would almost be inclined to trace it to a Danish source ; or it may be an episode of some forgotten Metrical Romance: but this cannot satisfactorily be ascertained, from its catastrophe being unfortunately wanting." Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 345.
The same is in Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, ii. 75. |
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When two lovers love each other weel,
Great sin it were them to twinn ; And this I speak from young Bearwell;
He loved a lady ying, The Mayor's daughter of Birktoun-brae, 5
That lovely leesome thing.
One day when she was looking out, When washing her milk-white hands,
Then she beheld him young Bearwell, As he came in the sands. io |
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9, That. |
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