The book of British ballads . » cfetiti of m\t. Here take her, Child of Elle, — he sayd,And gave her lillye white hand ; — Here take my deare and only child,And with her half my land: Thy father once mine honour wrongedIn days of youthful pride — Do thou the injurye repayreIn fondness for thy bride ; And as thou love her, and hold her deare,Heaven prosper thee and thine ! And nowe my blessing wend wi thee,My lovelye Emmeline!. HE TWA BROTHERS. We copy this pathetic ballad from^ Motherwells Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern. Heinclines to trace its origin to a melancholy event thathappened in the
The book of British ballads . » cfetiti of m\t. Here take her, Child of Elle, — he sayd,And gave her lillye white hand ; — Here take my deare and only child,And with her half my land: Thy father once mine honour wrongedIn days of youthful pride — Do thou the injurye repayreIn fondness for thy bride ; And as thou love her, and hold her deare,Heaven prosper thee and thine ! And nowe my blessing wend wi thee,My lovelye Emmeline!. HE TWA BROTHERS. We copy this pathetic ballad from^ Motherwells Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern. Heinclines to trace its origin to a melancholy event thathappened in the family of the Somervilles, which isthus recorded:—This year, 1589, in the moneth ofJuly, ther falls out a sad accident, as a further warningthat God was displeased with the familie. * * * *The servant, with his two sones, William, Master ofSomervil, and John, his brother, went with the horsesto ane shott of land, called the prety shott, directlyopposite the front of the house, where there was some meadow ground for grassingthe horses, and willowes to shaddow themselves from the heat. They had not longcontinued in this place, when the Master of Somervil, after some litle rest awakeingfrom his sleep, and finding his pistolles, that lay hard by him, wett with the dew,he began to rub and dry them, when, unhappily, one of them went off the ratch, beinglying upon his knee, and the muzel turned side-ways, the ball strocke h
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