The book of British ballads . She bathed him in the Lady-Well, His wounds so deep and sair ;And she plaited a garland for his breast,And a garland for his hair. They rowed him in a lily-sheet, And bare him to his earth; [mass, And the Gray Friars sung the dead mansAs they passd the Chapel Garth. They buried him at the mirk midnight,When the dew fell cold and still, When the aspin gray forgot to play,And the mist cluno- to the hill. They dug his grave but a bare foot deep,By the edge of the Nine-Stone Burn, And they coverd him oer with the heather-The moss and the lady fern. [flower, A Gray Fri
The book of British ballads . She bathed him in the Lady-Well, His wounds so deep and sair ;And she plaited a garland for his breast,And a garland for his hair. They rowed him in a lily-sheet, And bare him to his earth; [mass, And the Gray Friars sung the dead mansAs they passd the Chapel Garth. They buried him at the mirk midnight,When the dew fell cold and still, When the aspin gray forgot to play,And the mist cluno- to the hill. They dug his grave but a bare foot deep,By the edge of the Nine-Stone Burn, And they coverd him oer with the heather-The moss and the lady fern. [flower, A Gray Friar staid upon the grave, And sang till the morning tide; And a friar shall sing for Barthrams soul, While the Headless Cross shall bide. D Fanny Mlan del. Fred. Branaton IR CAULINE This beautiful, touching, and interesting ballad is extracted from the Reliques of ,who thus introduces it to the reader: — The oldromantic tale was preserved in the editors folio MS.,but in so very defective and mutilated a condition, (notfrom any chasm in the MS., but from great omission ^ Jir^ \ *n transcr*pt Prouaulv copied from the faulty recitation of some illiterate minstrel,) and the wholeappeared so far short of the perfection it seemed todeserve, that the Editor was tempted to add severalstanzas in the first part, and still more in the second,v to connect and complete the story in the manner which appearedto him most interesting and affecting. Of the extent of Dr. Percys additions we haveno evidence. The poem, as here presented, is, no doubt, a recasting, rather than a re-storation, of the ancient composition, the rude fragments of which, rent asunder by manya hiatus valde deflendus, lay scattered among the pages of the old folio manuscript. Weare, howev
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