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THE NORTHERN LORD AND CRUEL JEW. 277 |
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" In Pirie's chair you'll sit, I say,
The lowest seat o' hell; If ye do not amend your ways,
It's there that ye must dwell."
Wi' that he vanish'd frae her sight, Wi' the twinkling o' an eye;
Naething mair the lady saw, But the gloomy clouds and sky. |
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THE NORTHERN LORD AND CRUEL JEW. Appendix to p. 46.
This ballad, which has some features of resemblance to Cymleline, as well as to the Merchant of Venice, is taken from Buchan's Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish scarce old Ballads, p. 105. Another copy is in Mr. Halliwell's New Boke about Shak-speare, p. 19. |
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A noble lord of high renown, Two daughters had, the eldest brown, |
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