StoryTitle("caps", "Clerk Saunders") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clerk Saunders and may Margaret", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Walk'd owre yon garden green;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And deep and heavy was the love", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That fell thir twa between.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"A bed, a bed,\" Clerk Saunders said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"A bed for you and me!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Fye na, fye na,\" said may Margaret,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Till anes we married be!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Then I'll take the sword frae my scabbard", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slowly lift the pin; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you may swear, and save your aith,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ye ne'er let Clerk Saunders in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Take you a napkin in your hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tie up baith your bonnie e'en,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you may swear, and save your aith, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ye saw me na since late yestreen.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was about the midnight hour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When they asleep were laid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When in and came her seven brothers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' torches burning red: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When in and came her seven brothers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' torches burning bright:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They said, \"We hae but one sister,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And behold her lying with a knight!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then out and spake the first o' them, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I bear the sword shall gar him die.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out and spake the second o' them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"His father has nae mair but he.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out and spake the third o' them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I wot that they are lovers dear.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out and spake the fourth o' them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"They hae been in love this mony a year.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then out and spake the fifth o' them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"It were great sin true love to twain.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out and spake the sixth o' them, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"It were shame to slay a sleeping man.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then up and gat the seventh o' them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And never a word spake he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he has striped his bright brown brand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out through Clerk Saunders' fair bodye. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clerk Saunders he started, and Margaret she turn'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Into his arms as asleep she lay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sad and silent was the night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That was atween thir twae.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they lay still and sleepit sound ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Until the day began to daw';", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kindly she to him did say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"It is time, true love, you were awa'.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he lay still, and sleepit sound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Albeit the sun began to sheen; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She look'd atween her and the wa',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And dull and drowsie were his e'en.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then in and came her father dear;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Said, \"Let a' your mourning be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll carry the dead corse to the clay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I'll come back and comfort thee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Comfort weel your seven sons,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For comforted I will never be:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I ween 'twas neither knave nor loon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was in the bower last night wi' me.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clinking bell gaed through the town,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To carry the dead corse to the clay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Clerk Saunders stood at may Margaret's window,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wot, an hour before the day.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Are ye sleeping, Marg'ret?\" he says, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Or are ye waking presentlie?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give me my faith and troth again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wot, true love, I gied to thee.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Your faith and troth ye sall never get,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor our true love sall never twin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until ye come within my bower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And kiss me cheik and chin.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"My mouth it is full cold, Marg'ret;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It has the smell, now, of the ground;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I kiss thy comely mouth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy days of life will not be lang.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O cocks are crowing a merry midnight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wot the wild fowls are boding day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give me my faith and troth again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And let me fare me on my way.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Thy faith and troth thou sallna get,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And our true love sall never twin,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until ye tell what comes o' women,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wot, who die in strong traivelling?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Their beds are made in the heavens high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Down at the foot of our good Lord's knee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weel set about wi' gillyflowers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wot, sweet company for to see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O cocks are crowing a merry midnight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wot the wild fowls are boding day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The psalms of heaven will soon be sung,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I, ere now, will be miss'd away.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then she has taken a crystal wand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she has stroken her troth thereon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She has given it him out at the shot-window, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' mony a sad sigh and heavy groan.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I thank ye, Marg'ret; I thank ye, Marg'ret;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And ay I thank ye heartilie;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gin ever the dead come for the quick,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be sure, Marg'ret, I'll come for thee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It's hosen and shoon, and gown alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She climb'd the wall, and follow'd him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until she came to the green forest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And there she lost the sight o' him.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Is there ony room at your head, Saunders?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is there ony room at your feet?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or ony room at your side, Saunders,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where fain, fain, I wad sleep?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There's nae room at my head, Marg'ret,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There's nae room at my feet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My bed it is fu' lowly now,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amang the hungry worms I sleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Cauld mould is my covering now,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But and my winding-sheet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dew it falls nae sooner down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than my resting-place is weet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"But plait a wand o' bonny birk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And lay it on my breast;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shed a tear upon my grave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wish my saul gude rest.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then up and crew the red, red cock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And up and crew the gray:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQSQ", "", "\" 'Tis time, 'tis time, my dear Marg'ret,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That you were going away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And fair Marg'ret, and rare Marg'ret,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Marg'ret o' veritie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gin e'er ye love another man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ne'er love him as ye did me.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>