Water o Wearie's Wells- A. Harris (Perth) c.1830 Child Bc
[My title, date, location. Harris Manuscript, No 19, given in ESPB, end-notes as Child Bc. Amelia Harris 1815-1891 [MS is C.1830 and after) Harvard Library 25241.17, probably from her mother’s recitation.
R. Matteson 2018]
Water o Wearie's Wells, a fragment from Amelia Harris which Child gives in his end-notes
4.3 Mony a time I rade wi my brown foal
The water o Wearie's Wells,
5. 'Leave aff, leave aff your gey mantle,
It 's a' gowd but the hem;
Leave aff, leave [aff], it's far owre gude
To weet i the saut see faem.'
6 She wade in, an he rade in,
Till it took her to the knee;
Wi sighin said that lady gay
'Sic wadin's no for me.'
* * *
9 He rade in, and she wade in,
Till it took her to the chin;
Wi sighin said that ladie gay
'I'll wade nae farer in.'
10.3 'Sax king's dochters I hae drowned,
An the seventh you sail be.'
* * *
13 'Lie you there, you fause young man,
Where you thought to lay me.'