StoryTitle("caps", "The Queen's Marie") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Marie Hamilton's to the kirk gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' ribbons in her hair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King thought mair o' Marie Hamilton ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than ony that were there. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Marie Hamilton's to the kirk gane", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' ribbons on her breast; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King thought mair o' Marie Hamilton ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than he listen'd to the priest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Marie Hamilton's to the kirk gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' gloves upon her hands;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King thought mair o' Marie Hamilton ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than the Queen and a' her lands. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She hadna been about the King's court ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A month, but barely one, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till she was beloved by a' the King's court", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the King the only man. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She hadna been about the King's court ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A month, but barely three, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till frae the King's court Marie Hamilton, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Marie Hamilton durstna be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King is to the Abbey gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To pu' the Abbey tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To scale the babe frae Marie's heart; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But the thing it wadna be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O she has row'd it in her apron,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And set it on the sea—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Gae sink ye or swim ye, bonny babe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ye'se get nae mair o' me.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Word is to the kitchen gane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And word is to the ha',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And word is to the noble room ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amang the ladies a', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That Marie Hamilton's brought to bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the bonny babe's miss'd and awa'. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarcely had she lain down again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And scarcely fa'en asleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When up and started our gude Queen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Just at her bed-feet; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Saying—\"Marie Hamilton, where's your babe? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For I am sure I heard it greet.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O no, O no, my noble Queen! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Think no sic thing to be; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Twas but a stitch into my side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sair it troubles me!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Get up, get up, Marie Hamilton:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Get up and follow me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I am going to Edinburgh town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A rich wedding for to see.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O slowly, slowly rase she up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slowly put she on;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And slowly rade she out the way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' mony a weary groan. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Queen was clad in scarlet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her merry maids all in green; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every town that they cam to,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They took Marie for the Queen. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ride hooly, hooly, gentlemen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ride hooly now wi' me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For never, I am sure, a wearier burd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rade in your companie.\"—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But little wist Marie Hamilton, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When she rade on the brown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That she was gaen to Edinburgh town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a' to be put down. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Why weep ye so, ye burgess wives,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Why look ye so on me? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O I am going to Edinburgh town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A rich wedding to see.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she gaed up the tolbooth stairs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The corks frae her heels did flee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lang or e'er she cam down again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She was condemn'd to die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she cam to the Netherbow port, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She laugh'd loud laughters three; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when she came to the gallows foot ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tears blinded her e'e. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Yestreen the Queen had four Maries, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The night she'll hae but three; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was Marie Seaton, and Marie Beaton, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Marie Carmichael, and me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O often have I dress'd my Queen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And put gowd upon her hair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now I've gotten for my reward ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The gallows to be my share. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Often have I dress'd my Queen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And often made her bed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now I've gotten for my reward ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The gallows tree to tread. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I charge ye all, ye mariners, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When ye sail owre the faem, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let neither my father nor mother get wit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But that I'm coming hame. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I charge ye all, ye mariners, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That sail upon the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That neither my father nor mother get wit", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The dog's death I'm to die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"For if my father and mother got wit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And my bold brethren three, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O mickle wad be the gude red blude ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This day wad be spilt for me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O little did my mother ken, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The day she cradled me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lands I was to travel in ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or the death I was to die!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>