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| ABOUT Zule quhen the wind blew cule, | |
| And the round tables began, | |
| Ah! there is cum to our king’s court | |
| Mony a well-favor’d man. | |
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| The queen luikit owre the castle wa’, | 5 |
| Beheld baith dale and down, | |
| And there she saw young Waters | |
| Cum riding to the town. | |
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| His footmen they did rin before, | |
| His horsemen rade behind, | 10 |
| And mantel of the burning gowd | |
| Did keep him frae the wind. | |
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| Gowden graith’d his horse before, | |
| And siller shod behind; | |
| The horse young Waters rade upon | 15 |
| Was fleeter than the wind. | |
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| Out then spak a wylie lord, | |
| Unto the queen said he: | |
| “O tell me quha ’s the fairest face | |
| Rides in the company?” | 20 |
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| “I ’ve sene lord, and I ’ve seen laird, | |
| And knights of high degree, | |
| But a fairer face than young Waters’ | |
| Mine eyne did never see.” | |
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| Out then spak the jealous king | 25 |
| (And an angry man was he): | |
| “O, if he had been twice as fair, | |
| You micht have excepted me.” | |
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| “You ’re neither laird nor lord,” she says, | |
| “But the king that wears the crown; | 30 |
| There ’s not a knight in fair Scotland, | |
| But to thee maun bow down.” | |
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| For a’ that she could do or say, | |
| Appeased he wadna be; | |
| But for the words which she had said | 35 |
| Young Waters he maun die. | |
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| They hae ta’en young Waters, and | |
| Put fetters to his feet; | |
| They hae ta’en young Waters, and | |
| Thrown him in dungeon deep. | 40 |
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| Aft I have ridden thro’ Stirling town, | |
| In the wind bot and the weit; | |
| But I ne’er rade thro’ Stirling town | |
| Wi’ fetters at my feet. | |
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| Aft I have ridden thro’ Stirling town, | 45 |
| In the wind bot and the rain; | |
| But I ne’er rode thro’ Stirling town | |
| Ne’er to return again. | |
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| They hae ta’en to the heiding hill | |
| His young son in his cradle; | 50 |
| And they hae ta’en to the heiding hill | |
| His horse bot and the saddle. | |
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| They hae ta’en to the heiding hill | |
| His lady fair to see; | |
| And for the words the queen had spoke | 55 |
| Young Waters he did die. | |
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