The ladye's call'd her bour maiden, That waiting was into her train; "Five thousand merks I'll gie to thee, When bells were rung, and mass was sayne, Into a chamber they were laid. "Now, speak to me, blankets, and speak to me, bed, And speak, thou sheet, enchanted web; And speak up, my bonny brown sword, that winna lie, Is this a true maiden that lies by me?"— "It is not a maid that you hae wedded, O wrathfully he left the bed, "I am the most unhappy man, That ever was in Christen land! I courted a maiden, meik and mild, And I hae gotten naething but a woman wi' child." "O stay, my son, into this ha', To see how it fares wi' your paramour." The carline she was stark and sture, "O hear me, mother, on my knee, "It fell on a summer's afternoon, When a' our toilsome task was done, To see which suld to the grene-wood gang. “O hon! alas, for I was youngest, And aye my wierd it was the hardest! The kevil it on me did fa', Whilk was the cause of a' my woe. "For to the grene-wood I maun gae, "I hadna pu'd a flower but ane, "And be I a maid, or be I nae, He kept me there till the close o' day ; He kept me there till the day was done. "He gae me a lock o' his yellow hair, "He gae to me a gay gold ring, "O bring that coffer unto me, And a' the tokens ye sall see.". "Now stay, daughter, your bour within, While I gae parley wi' my son.”— "She threw away her rings and carknet cleen." HARRISON'S Translation of Orlando Furioso-Notes on Book 37th. O she has ta'en her thro' the ha', "What did you wi' the gay gold ring I bade you keep abune a' thing?" " I them to a ladye gay, gae I met on grene-wood on a day. "But I wad gie a' my halls and tours, I had that ladye within my bours ; I had that ladye to my wife." "Now keep, my son, your ha's and tours, Ye have the bright burd in your bours And keep, my son, your very life, Ye have that ladye to your wife." Now, or a month was come and gane, The ladye bare a bonny son; ; And 'twas weel written on his breast-bane, "Cospatrick is my father's name." O row my lady in satin and silk, And wash my son in the morning milk. PRINCE ROBERT. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. FROM THE RECITATION OF A LADY, NEARLY RELATED TO THE EDITOR.1 PRINCE ROBERT has wedded a gay ladye, "Your blessing, your blessing, my mother dear! Your blessing now grant to me!"— "Instead of a blessing ye sall have my curse, And you'll get nae blessing frae me." She has call'd upon her waiting-maid, To fill a glass of wine; She has call'd upon her fause steward, To put rank poison in. [Miss Christian Rutherford. See p. 263. ante.-ED.] |