29 For I'll ride on the milk-white steed, 30 My right hand will be glovd, lady, And kaid down shall my hair, 31 They'll turn me in your arms, lady, 32 They'll turn me to a bear sae grim, And then a lion bold; But hold me fast and fear me not, 33 Again they 'll turn me in your arms 130 140 Then throw me into well water, 35 And then I'll be your ain true-love, 36 Gloomy, gloomy was the night, As fair Jenny in her green mantle 37 About the middle o the night 38 First she let the black pass by, 150 160 But quickly she ran to the milk-white steed, And pu'd the rider down. 39 Sae weel she minded what he did say, 170 40 Out then spak the Queen o Fairies, Out of a bush o broom: 'Them that has gotten young Tam Lin Has gotten a stately groom.' 41 Out then spak the Queen o Fairies, And an angry woman was she: 'Shame betide her ill-far'd 6 face, And an ill death may she die, For she's taen awa the boniest knight In a' my companie. 42 'But had I kend, Tam Lin,' she says, What now this night I see, I wad hae taen out thy twa grey een, YOUNG AKIN OR HIND ETIN 180 8 This story of a mortal and her fairy husband has suffered in the handing down of it. 2 She loot1 the seam fa frae her side, 3 She hadna pu'd a nut, a nut, 4 'O why pu ye the nut, the nut, 8 10 20 30 18 It fell upo another day, This guid lord he thought lang, 19 Wi bow and arrow by his side, 20 'O I will tell to you, mither, 60 70 'Speak on, speak on, my little wee boy, Ye 'se nae be quarrelld by me.' 21 As we came frae the hynd-hunting, We heard fine music ring: ' 'My blessings on you, my bonny boy, I wish I'd been there my lane.' 7 22 He's taen his mither by the hand, And they are on thro Elmond's wood, 80 1 let. * courteous youth. ask. 4 root. 5 hollow. |