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 BONNY LASS BANAPHIE.

—The Gallant Grahams.

I loved a Lady fair,

She was a beauty I declare,

The only flower of the North Countrie,

The bonny lass of Banaphie.

She being heiress of houses and land,

And I alone a poor farmer’s son,

It was her birth and high degree

That parted my true love and me.

I lov’d this Lady in my heart,

Against our wills it was to part,

For she ador’d me as her life,

In private we were man and wife.

Great Knights & Squires a-courting came

Unto this fair and lovely dame,

But all their offers prov’d in vain,

For none her favour could obtain.