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Portrait of Francis James Child Francis James Child The English and Scottish Popular Ballads…

O pardon us,' they did say;
'Lady Jean is with Captain Ogilvie,
And away with him she will gae.'
When he came to Aberdeen,
And down upon the green,
There did he see Captain Ogilvie,
Training up his men.
'O wo to you, Captain Ogilvie,
And an ill death thou shalt die;
For taking to thee my daughter,
Hang d thou shalt be.'
Duke Gordon has wrote a broad letter,
And sent it to the king,
To cause hang Captain Ogilvie
If ever he hanged a man.
'I will not hang Captain Ogilvie,
For no lord that I see
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