{"id":301,"date":"2012-04-17T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/?p=301"},"modified":"2012-07-02T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:16:58","slug":"percy-1765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/ballad\/percy-1765\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy (1765)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The king sits in Dumferling toune,
\nDrinking the blude-reid wine:
\n\u2018O whar will I get guid sailor,
\nTo sail this schip of mine?’<\/p>\n

Up and spak an eldern knicht,
\nSat at the kings richt kne:
\n\u2018Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor
\nThat sails upon the se.’<\/p>\n

The king has written a braid letter,
\nAnd signd it wi his hand,
\nAnd sent it to Sir Patrick Spence,
\nWas walking on the sand.<\/p>\n

The first line that Sir Patrick red,
\nA loud lauch lauched he;
\nThe next line that Sir Patrick red,
\nThe teir blinded his ee.<\/p>\n

\u2018O wha is this has don this deid,
\nThis ill deid don to me,
\nTo send me out this time o\u2019 the yeir,
\nTo sail upon the se?<\/p>\n

\u2018Mak hast, mak haste, my mirry men all,
\nOur guid schip sails the morne:\u2019
\n\u2018O say na sae, my master deir,
\nFor I feir a deadlie storme.<\/p>\n

\u2018Late late yestreen I saw the new moone,
\nWi the auld moone in hir arme,
\nAnd I feir, I feir, my deir master,
\nThat we will cum to harme.’<\/p>\n

O our Scots nables wer richt laith
\nTo weet their cork-heild schoone;
\nBot lang owre a\u2019 the play wer playd,
\nTheir hats they swam aboone.<\/p>\n

O lang, lang may their ladies sit,
\nWi thair fans into their hand,
\nOr eir they se Sir Patrick Spence
\nCum sailing to the land.<\/p>\n

O lang, lang may the ladies stand,
\nWi thair gold kems in their hair,
\nWaiting for thair ain deir lords,
\nFor they\u2019ll se thame na mair.<\/p>\n

Have owre, have owre to Aberdour,
\nIt\u2019s fiftie fadom deip,
\nAnd thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
\nWi the Scots lords at his feit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence The king sits in Dumferling toune, Drinking the blude-reid wine: \u2018O whar will I get guid sailor, To sail this schip of mine?’ Up and spak an eldern knicht, Sat at the kings richt … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}