2.
She meant to go unto that place
To stay a little while;
But mark what fortune her befell
When she went to the Isle.
It fell out upon a day,
Sheep-shearing at an end,
Lizie Baillie she walkd out,
To see a distant friend.
3.
But going down in a low glen
She met wi Duncan Græme,
Who courted her along the way,
Likewise convoyed her hame.
_The whole ballad is treated with the like freedom and
feebleness._
22.
‘O stay at hame,’ her father said,
‘Your mither cannot want thee;
And gin ye gang awa this night
We’ll hae a Killycrankie.’
Killycrankie _for a_ row: _a droll emendation of #a#, and the only
spirited line in the piece._
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