The eldest said to the youngest ane, Binnorie, O Binnorie; "Will ye go and see our father's ships come in ?". By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. She's ta'en her by the lily hand, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And led her down to the river strand; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. The youngest stude upon a stane, Binnorie, O Binnorie ; The eldest came and pushed her in; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. She took her by the middle sma', Binnorie, O Binnorie; And dash'd her bonny back to the jaw ; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "O sister, sister, reach your hand, And ye Binnorie, O Binnorie; shall be heir of half my land."_ By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "O sister, I'll not reach my hand, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And I'll be heir of all your land; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "Shame fa' the hand that I should take, Binnorie, O Binnorie; It's twin'd me, and my world's make.". By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "O sister, reach me but your glove, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And sweet William shall be your love." By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "Sink on, nor hope for hand or glove! Binnorie, O Binnorie: And sweet William shall better be my love, By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "Your cherry cheeks and your yellow hair, Binnorie, O Binnorie; Garr'd me gang maiden evermair." By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. Sometimes she sunk, and sometimes she swam, Until she cam to the miller's dam; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "O father, father, draw your dam! Binnorie, O Binnorie; There's either a mermaid, or a milk-white swan.”By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. The miller hasted and drew his dam, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And there he found a drown'd woman; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. You could not see her yellow hair, Binnorie, O Binnorie; For gowd and pearls that were so rare ; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. You could not see her middle sma', Binnorie, O Binnorie; Her gowden girdle was sae bra'; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. A famous harper passing by, Binnorie, O Binnorie: The sweet pale face he chanced to spy; And when he looked that lady on, Binnorie, O Binnorie; He sigh'd and made a heavy moan; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. He made a harp of her breast-bone, Binnorie, O Binnorie; Whose sounds would melt a heart of stone; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. The strings he framed of her yellow hair, Whose notes made sad the listening ear; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. He brought it to her father's hall, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And there was the court assembled all; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. He laid his harp upon a stone, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And straight it began to play alone; 'By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "O yonder sits my father, the king, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And yonder sits my mother, the queen ; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. "And yonder stands my brother Hugh, Binnorie, O Binnorie; And by him my William, sweet and true.” By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. But the last tune that the harp play'd then, Was "Woe to my sister, false Helen!" By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. THE QUEEN'S MARIE. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. "IN the very time of the General Assembly, there comes to public knowledge a haynous murther, committed in the court; yea, not far from the Queen's lap; for a French woman, that served in the Queen's chamber, had played the whore with the Queen's own apothecary.―The woman conceived and bare a childe,. whom, with common consent, the father and mother murthered; yet were the cries of a new-borne childe hearde, searche was made, the childe and the mother were both apprehended, and so were the man and the woman condemned to be hanged in the publicke street of Edinburgh. The punishment was suitable, because the crime was haynous. But yet was not the court purged of whores and whoredoms, which was the fountaine of such enormities; for it was well known that shame hasted marriage betwixt John Sempill, called the Dancer, and Mary Levingston,' sirnamed the Lusty. "John Semple, son of Robert, Lord Semple, (by Elizabeth |