O I am not the Queen hersell, Nor ane o her maries three; But I am the lass o Lochroyan, Seeking Love Gregory.
Gregory's mother answers as and for her son, and demands proofs of her being the lass of Rochroyal.
But Willie spak a word amiss, Fair Annie took it ill: 'I'll neer marry a tocherless lass Agen my ain friends' will.
If you are the lass that I lovd once, As I true you are not she, Come give me some of the tokens That past between you and me.
Set down, set down that comely corp, Set down, and let me see Gin that be the lass of Lochroyan, That died for love o me.
The baffld knight was by the lass Ingeniously outwitted, And since that time it came to pass He was again well fitted.
Oh if you be the lass of Aughrim, As I suppose you not to be, Come tell me the last token Between you and me.
Or is thou the lass of Lochroyan, Seeking Love Gregory?
If thou be the lass of Lochroyan, As I know no thou be, Tell me some of the true tokens That past between me and thee.
If you be the lass of the Rochroyall, As I trow not you be, You will tell me some of our love-tokens, That was betwixt you and me.
I dreamt a dream this night, mother, I wish it may prove true, That the bonny lass of Lochroyan Was at the gate just now.
Out under the shadow of the porch he had said: "You're the lass for me.
And ye're early up the day, but the lass was up earlier to tell me o' your meeting.
Whaur ony decent lass should be at this 'oor o' the nicht--in her naked bed.
On each occasion when the lasswas seen perambulating, The little quadruped likewise was there a gallivating.
An hour ago, when you besought This countrylass to walk with you, After the sun had dried the dew, What perilous danger you'd be in As she tied her bonnet under her chin.
I'm sure wi' you I've been as free As ony modest lass should be; But yet it doesna do to see Sic freedom used before folk.
With feminine scorn no fair Vassar-bred lass at us Shall smile if we own that we cannot read Tacitus.
This line, as printed, reads: The lass he woo' d, her promise won.
As I to the town was going one day 14 My Roman lass I met by the way] She.
Tom Bowling,' or 'The wind that blows, and the ship that goes, and the lass that loves a sailor.
You just stay with the poor lass as long as you can, and don't let Miss Vipen or any other havering woman get at her to be asking her useless questions.
Mrs. Kemp's lassis the only sensible one among 'em.
When I was a young lass it happened, when things was different, and the men were rougher than now, and strange deeds might be done from time to time, and never come under the eye o' the law.
But one flew straighter than the others; Ringan heard behind him a sound, half gasp, half sob, and turned just in time to see the lass sink on the floor, blood pouring from her throat.
Tis so long I can't remember: Ask some younger lassthan I.
When that is done there will always be a welcome for you; but my lass has no mother to guide her, and I must take extra care that she does not match herself illy.
As if there were no other inn but 'The Two Ravens,' and no other lass worth making love to but her!
I will walk about till then, and shall go home thinking that my sweetheart is the daintiest lass in this village or the next.
My lass will not listen to leaving her old father, but fights against it like a bird that loves its cage, all the more fiercely now that I am down.
No one but a lass he is sweet upon would dare do it.
Something about a lass near 'Norston's Rest,' that folks say the young man is to wed.
Do you think I want every gamekeeper on the place to be jibing about the lass I mean to make a lady of, if she's only careful of herself?
A fine lass that," said the man who sat nearest him, as the barmaid moved across the room, with the force and rude grace of a leopardess.
My lass gone away, no one knows where, and nothing but this left behind to remember her by!
Is it a terrible sin for a man to stop the lass he is to wed, for a word wherever he chances to find her?
The girl was his sweetheart, and a winsome lass she is.
From a child you were that, and I have, more than once, had misgivings; but I did not think you would be bent on marrying with a lass against her will.
There is no harm in saying that there was a very pretty smiling buxom young lass for a travelling companion; and somehow, to a lonely person, the landscape always looks prettier in such society.
If the young Lass there, had jilted Cuddlett, she had mist of her good Fortune; and her Unwillingness to encrease the Number of her Admirers, is the Cause of her Happiness.
Your first show's us, that the best Preservative a young Lass can have against Love and our deluding Sex, is, to be wholly unacquainted therewith.
Twould be the best tidings I've heard for many a long day, that you were wedded to a lass with a good tocher, and fit to guide your silly pate.
Whatten sort of a lass is she, for I ha’ never seen her?
I had a strong mind to cast it up to her, that she should ha’ sent my poor lass away without telling on it to us first; but she were in black, and looked so sad I could na’ find in my heart to threep it up.
And if it is so, then Jane Dunster’s the lass for me; that is, if it’s quite agreeable.
Naturally, then, three weeks of ocean had fretted the restless lass as intolerable, tyrannical.
To judge from the way their brains worked now, both young people might have been grave wielders of state affairs, instead of the lad and the lass so heartily and pettily scorning each other a short hour before.
The lass who had seen the fairies was a certain Eilidh Macdonald, and she married a chief, and went to live far away in Oban, and all her days she was clad in green silk.
I hef warned her that the boat was not safe, and of the squalls, and that it was not the thing for a lass like her to go so late; and she had promised, and yet she went!
The lass is a changeling, sure enough, and she will go.
Illustration: "It is a pretty boat to take a lass out in.
The lass and her elfin servant rested and diverted themselves, till, on the mistress's approach, it was restored to the cradle, and began to yell anew.
Tis Christ as you've turned your stiff back 'pon--Christ as'll let this poor lass into heaven afore ever you gets theer!
I be such a poor lass in brains, an' I could awnly think of trouble 'cause I loved 'e so true.
Theer's allus a fear wi' the fust, specially in the case o' a pin-tail built lass like you be.
She was no pretty lass whose sweet innocence is merely ignorance.
