The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, by Walter Scott

—“O ye mariners, mariners, mariners,

That sail upon the sea,

Let not my father nor mother to wit,

The death that I maun die!”—

When she cam to the Netherbow port,

She laughed loud laughters three;

But when she cam to the gallows foot,

The tear blinded her e'e.

—“Yestreen the queen had four Maries,

The night she'll hae but three;

There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beatoun,

And Marie Carmichael, and me.”—