By St. Bryde of Douglas, I would give a year's rental of Touraine for the head of Livingstone, of Crichton, or even of the wretch who acted as their doomster!
If I forget my father and my kinsmen, so may God, his blessed Mother, and St. Bryde of Douglas, forget me!
St. Bryde I shall rid our house and my sister of such intrusive visitors!
God and St. Bryde of Douglas permit me once again to cross the bridge of Dumfries I shall have a vengeance on MacLellan, so sure and deadly, that all Scotland shall ring with it from sea to sea.
By our blessed Lord, before whom this relic of St. Bryde is holy, I swear it!
LXII ‘And what wold ye doe with my bryde soe gay, Iff I did sell her thee?
Now sell me, quoth hee, thy brydesoe gay, 245 As shee sitts by thy knee, And as many gold nobles I will give, As leaves been on a tree.
And what wold ye doe with my brydesoe gay, Iff I did sell her thee?
A brydeshal nat eten in the halle, 1890 Til dayes foure or three dayes atte leste Y-passed been; than lat hir go to feste.
Throughe a forest as I can ryde, To take my sporte yn an mornyng, I cast my eye on euery syde, I was ware of a bryde syngynge.
Away by the bryde rode Thomas of Pott, But noe word to her that he did say; But when he came Lord Phenix before, He gaue him the right time of the day.
Stay thy harpe, thou proud harper, For Gods love I pray thee; For and thou playes as thou beginns, Thou'lt till my bryde from mee.
With that the wedding-day was stayd, The bryde went vnmarryed home againe; Then to her maydens ffast shee loughe, And in her hart shee was ffull ffaine.
Ay," said I, sitting up and thinking of Mhari nic Cloidh; "is it Bryde McBride you are meaning?
And Hugh McBride looked glumly at Bryde as he left.
And there by the burnside they met, Brydeand Helen.
It would be doing a man's heart good to be hearing Bryde making a mock of the old captain at these times, and the good laughter of him that would start a houseful o' folk to laugh also.
It has come to me since that she would be like Brydein her rage.
And at the Big House it would be Bryde this and Bryde that, till I am thinking poor Hugh would be near demented.
Was it not in your mind to be trying these havers on Bryde yourself?
With the blaze of the pieces I saw Dol Beag spring at Bryde as a wild cat springs; crooked and bestial he was, and his knife flashing, but swifter than the knife-flash was the love of the maid, who fell as Bryde fell.
But Belle was the slave of Margaret since the days when Hugh and Bryde and the little wild lass would be playing in the heather, and climbing for jackdaw's eggs or young rock-pigeons in Dun Dubh.
After the Bancket and Feast, there begynnethe a vayne, madde and unmanerlye fashion, for the Bryde must be brought into an open dauncynge place.
Then muste the poore Bryde kepe foote with al Dauncers and refuse none, how scabbed, foule, droncken, rude and shameles soever he be.
Then he read aloud the quaint inscription: "Ye bryde whose lippes kysse myne An taste ye water an no wyne Shall happy live and hersel see A happy grandchile on each knee.
And what wold ye doe with my bryde soe gay, Iff I did sell her yee?
Now sell me, quoth hee, thy bryde soe gay, As shee sitts by thy knee, And as many gold nobles I will give, As leaves been on a tree.
Stay thy harpe, thou proud harper, For Gods love I pray thee, For and thou playes as thou beginns, Thou'lt till my bryde from mee.
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