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Andrew Lang - Sir Hugh; Or The Jew`s Daughter
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Four-and-twenty bonny boys
Were playing at the ba,
And by it came him sweet Sir Hugh,
And he playd o`er them a`.

He kickd the ba with his right foot
And catchd it wi his knee,
And throuch-and-thro the Jew`s window
He gard the bonny ba flee.

He`s doen him to the Jew`s castell
And walkd it round about;
And there he saw the Jew`s daughter,
At the window looking out.

"Throw down the ba, ye Jew`s daughter,
Throw down the ba to me!"
"Never a bit," says the Jew`s daughter,
"Till up to me come ye."

"How will I come up?  How can I come up?
How can I come to thee?
For as ye did to my auld father,
The same ye`ll do to me."

She`s gane till her father`s garden,
And pu`d an apple red and green;
`Twas a` to wyle him sweet Sir Hugh,
And to entice him in.

She`s led him in through ae dark door,
And sae has she thro nine;
She`s laid him on a dressing-table,
And stickit him like a swine.

And first came out the thick, thick blood,
And syne came out the thin;
And syne came out the bonny heart`s blood;
There was nae mair within.

She`s rowd him in a cake o lead,
Bade him lie still and sleep;
She`s thrown him in Our Lady`s draw-well,
Was fifty fathom deep.

When bells were rung, and mass was sung,
And a` the bairns came hame,
When every lady gat hame her son,
The Lady Maisry gat nane.

She`s taen her mantle her about,
Her coffer by the hand,
And she`s gane out to seek her son,
And wandered o`er the land.

She`s doen her to the Jew`s castell,
Where a` were fast asleep:
"Gin ye be there, my sweet Sir Hugh,
I pray you to me speak."

"Gae hame, gae hame, my mither dear,
Prepare my winding-sheet,
And at the back o merry Lincoln
The morn I will you meet."

Now Lady Maisry is gane hame,
Make him a winding-sheet,
And at the back o merry Lincoln,
The dead corpse did her meet.

And a the bells o merry Lincoln
Without men`s hands were rung,
And a` the books o merry Lincoln
Were read without man`s tongue,
And neer was such a burial
Sin Adam`s days begun.
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