The book of British ballads . But the young cock crew in merry Linkum, And the wild fowl chirped for day;And the aulder to the younger said, Brother, we maun away. The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin worm doth chide;Gin we be missed out o our place,A sair pain we maun bide. Lie still, lie still a little wee while, Lie still but if we may;Gin my mother miss us when she wakes,Shell gae mad ere it be day. 0 its theyve taen up their mothers mantil, And theyve hung it on a pin: 0 lang may ye hing, my mothers mantil,Ere ye hap us again. J r H. C. Selous del. J. Bastin IR ANDREW
The book of British ballads . But the young cock crew in merry Linkum, And the wild fowl chirped for day;And the aulder to the younger said, Brother, we maun away. The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin worm doth chide;Gin we be missed out o our place,A sair pain we maun bide. Lie still, lie still a little wee while, Lie still but if we may;Gin my mother miss us when she wakes,Shell gae mad ere it be day. 0 its theyve taen up their mothers mantil, And theyve hung it on a pin: 0 lang may ye hing, my mothers mantil,Ere ye hap us again. J r H. C. Selous del. J. Bastin IR ANDREW BARTON. In the Reliques of AncientEnglish Poetry this fine old Ballad is thus prefaced: It appears to have been written in the reign of Eliza-beth, and has received great improvements from theEditors folio MS. wherein was an ancient copy, which,though very incorrect, seemed in many respects supe-rior to the common ballad; the latter being evidentlymodernised and abridged from it. The following textis however in some places amended and improved bythe latter (chiefly from a black-letter copy in the Pepyscollection), as also by conjecture. The variationsmay be ascertained by comparing the version as given by Dr. Percywith that which Ritson printed. They are extensive and essential. Ritson merelystates, in introducing it, that the story is to be found in most of the English Chro-nicles, under the year 1511. But the ballad, in all probability, is nearly a centurymore modern. The story is this:—A certain Scottish captain, by name Barton,greatly worried the English sailors and me
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