26.
'I'm nae the Duke of Albany,
Nor James, the Scottish king;
But I'm a valiant Scottish knight,
Pitnachton is my name.'

27.
'O if Pitnachton be your name,
As I trust well it be,
The morn, or I tast meat or drink,
You shall be hanged hi'.'

28.
Then out it spake the valiant knight
That came brave Johney wi';
'Behold five hunder bowmen bold,
Will die to set him free.'

29.
Then out it spake the king again,
An' a scornfu' laugh laugh he;
'I have an Italian in my house
Will fight you three by three.'

30.
'O grant me a boon,' brave Johney cried;
'Bring your Italian here;
Then if he fall beneath my sword,
I've won your daughter dear.'

31.
Then out it came that Italian,
An' a gurious ghost was he;
Upo' the point o' Johney's sword
This Italian did die.

32.
Out has he drawn his lang, lang bran',
Struck it across the plain:
'Is there any more o' your English dogs
That you want to be slain?'

33.
'A clark, a clark,' the king then cried,
'To write her tocher free';
'A priest, a priest,' says Love Johney,
'To marry my love and me.

34.
'I'm seeking nane o' your gold,' he says,
'Nor of your silver clear;
I only seek your daughter fair,
Whose love has cost her dear.'

[Annotations:
5.2,4: 'A wot' = I wis.
6.2: See _Young Bekie_, 16.4; _Brown Adam_, 5.2.
10: See _Lady Maisry_, 21; _Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet_, 12, etc.:
a stock ballad-phrase.
12.1: 'sark,' shift.
12.4: 'Speer' (speir), ask.
13.2: 'gare,' gore: see _Brown Robin_, 10.4.
18.4: 'loote,' let.
22.4: 'mess,' mass.
27.3: 'or,' ere.
29.2: The second 'laugh' is the past tense of the verb.
31.2: 'gurious,' grim, ugly.
33.2: 'tocher,' dowry.]

LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET

+The Text+ is taken from Motherwell's _Minstrelsy_, a similar version
being given in Maidment's _North Countrie Garland_. A few alterations
from the latter version are incorporated.

+The Story+ bears tokens of confusion with _Lady Maisry_ in some of the
variants of either, but here the tragedy is that the bridegroom is
brother to the lover. The end of this ballad in all its forms is highly
unnatural in its style: why should Maisery's remorse at having been such
an expense to Lord Ingram be three times as great as her grief for the
loss of her lover? It is by no means romantic.

LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL W