"Or does the wind blow in your glove, Or runs your mind on another love?"
"Nor blows the wind within my glove, Nor runs my mind on another love;"
"But I not maid nor maiden am, 35 For I'm wi' bairn to another man."
"I thought I'd a maiden sae meek and sae mild, But I've nought but a woman wi' child."
His mother's taen her up to a tower, And lockit her in her secret bower: 40
"Now doughter mine, come tell to me, Wha's bairn this is that you are wi'."
"O mother dear, I canna learn Wha is the father of my bairn.
"But as I walk'd in the lowlands my lane, 45 I met a gentleman gallant and fine;
"He keepit me there sae late and sae lang, Frae the ev'ning late till the morning dawn;
"And a' that he gied me to my propine, Was a pair of green gloves, and a gay gold ring, 50
"Three lauchters of his yellow hair, In case that we shou'd meet nae mair."
His lady mother went down the stair: "Now son, now son, come tell to me, Where's the green gloves I gave to thee?" 55
"I gied to a lady sae fair and so fine, The green gloves and a gay gold ring:
"But I wad gie my castles and towers, I had that lady within my bowers:
"But I wad gie my very life, 60 I had that lady to be my wife."
"Now keep, now keep your castles and towers, You have that lady within your bowers:
"Now keep, now keep your very life, You have that lady to be your wife." 65
"O row my lady in sattin and silk, And wash my son in the morning milk."
Printed from Mrs. Brown's MS., in the _Border Minstrelsy_, vol. iii. p. 170. Another copy is given in Jamieson's _Popular Ballads_, (ii. 367,) and versions, enlarged and altered from the ancient, in the same work, (ii. 179,) and in _Tales of Wonder_, No. 56. This ballad bears a striking resemblance to _Sir Stig and Lady Torelild_, translated from the Danish by Jamieson, _Illustrations of Northern Antiquities_, p. 344. This is the eighth (marked H) of nine Danish ballads given by Grundtvig, under the title _Hustru og Mands Moder_, vol. ii. 404. Three Swedish versions have been printed: two in Arwidsson's _Fornsånger, Liten Kerstins Förtrollning_, ii. 252, and another (Grundtvig) in Cavallius and Stephens's _Svenska Folksagor_.
"Those who wish to know how an incantation, or charm, of the distressing nature here described, was performed in classic days, may consult the story of Galanthis's Metamorphosis, in Ovid, or the following passage in Apuleius: 'Eadem (saga, scilicet, quædam) amatoris uxorem, quod in eam dicacule probrum dixerat, jam in sarcinam prægnationis, obsepto utero, et repigrato f[oe]tu, perpetua prægnatione damnavit. Et ut cuncti numerant, octo annorum onere, misella illa, velut elephantum paritura, distenditur.' APUL. _Metam._ lib. i.