...spear, For I have seen the false mermaid.' RESTORATION VERSE igi. The Wife of Usher's Well "INHERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, •*• And a wealthy...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but...

...among the hongerey worms I sleep. 15. " Cold meal is my covering owre, THE WIFE OF USHEE'S WELL 1. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That...

...Of Cheviot within days thre, In the magger of doughty Douglas, And all that ever with him be, etc. There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea, etc. The modern reader is captivated by the directness and simplicity with which the old ballad begins,...

...Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. 3. They hadna been a week from her,...

...! For he pull'd up the bonnie brier, An' flang 't in St. Marie's Loch. 57. The Wife of Usher's Well THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week...

...and bridled and booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. n with eagles' wings; And just as I became assured...myself outside the hill, Left alone against my will, To came to the carline4 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but...

...wi' hearty cheer, And she'll never get mair o' me, O." THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL (Child, vol. iii.) THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but...

...winding sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Then ay it is full weet." 27 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline1 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,...

...Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. There lived a wife at Usher 's prize, honour you. MIR. T am a fool To weep at what came to the carline4 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but...

...winding sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Then ay it is full weet." 77 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna heen a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline1 wife That her three sons...