From the third volume of _Border Minstrelsy_, derived by Charles
Kirkpatrick Sharpe from a traditional version. The English version,
“Three Ravens,” was published in _Melismata_, by T. Ravensworth (1611).
In Scots, the lady “has ta’en another mate” his hawk and hound have
deserted the dead knight. In the English song, the hounds watch by him,
the hawks keep off carrion birds, as for the lady—
“She buried him before the prime,
She was dead herselfe ere evensong time.”
Probably the English is the earlier version.