{"id":297,"date":"2012-04-17T21:08:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/?p=297"},"modified":"2012-07-02T18:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:17:37","slug":"d-herd-1769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/ballad\/d-herd-1769\/","title":{"rendered":"D. Herd (1769)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence<\/strong><\/p>\n

The king he sits in Dumferling,
\nDrinking the blude reid wine:
\n‘0 where will I get a gude sailor,
\nThat ‘sail the ships o mine? ‘<\/p>\n

Up then started a yallow-haird man,
\nJust be the kings right knee:
\n‘Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor
\nThat ever saild the see.’<\/p>\n

Then the king he wrote a lang letter,
\nAnd sealld it with his hand,
\nAnd sent it to Sir Patrick Spence,
\nThat was lyand at Leith Sands.<\/p>\n

When Patrick lookd the letter on,
\nHe gae loud laughters three;
\nBut afore he wan to the end of it
\nThe teir blindit his ee.<\/p>\n

‘0 wha is this has tald the king,
\nHas tald the king o me?
\nGif I but wist the man it war,
\nHanged should he be.<\/p>\n

‘Come eat and drink, my merry men all,
\nFor our ships mann sail the morn;
\nBla ‘d wind, bla ‘d weet, bla ‘d sna or sleet,
\nOur ships maun sail the morn.’<\/p>\n

‘Alake and alas now, good master,
\nFor I fear a deidly storm;
\nFor I saw the new moon late yestreen,
\nAnd the nuld moon in her arms.’<\/p>\n

They had not saild upon the sea
\nA league but merely three,
\nWhen ugly, ugly were the jaws
\nThat rawd unto their knee.<\/p>\n

They had not saild upon the sea
\nA league but merely nine,
\nWhen wind and weit and snaw and sleit
\nCame blawing them behind.<\/p>\n

‘Then where will I get a pretty boy
\nWill take my steer in hand,
\nTill I go up to my tap-mast,
\nAnd see gif I see dry land?’<\/p>\n

‘Here am I, a pretty boy
\nThat ‘1 take your steir in hand,
\nTill you go up to your tap-mast,
\nAnd see an you see the land.’<\/p>\n

Laith, laith were our Scottish lords
\nTo weit their coal-black sboon;
\nBut yet ere a’ the play was playd,
\nThey wat their hats aboon.<\/p>\n

Laith, laith war our Scottish lords
\nTo weit their coal-black hair;
\nBut yet ere a’ the play was playd,
\nThey wat it every hair.<\/p>\n

The water at St Johnston’s wall
\nWas fifty fathom deep,
\nAnd there ly a’ our Scottish lords,
\nSir Patrick at their feet.<\/p>\n

Lang, lang may our ladies wait
\nWi the tear blinding their ee,
\nAfore they see Sir Patrick’s ships
\nCome sailing oer the sea.<\/p>\n

Lang, lang may our ladies wait,
\nWi their babies in their hands,
\nAfore they see Sir Patrick Spence
\nCome sailing to Leith Sands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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