Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Text is from the Glenriddell MSS and is the one on which Sir Walter Scott based the version given in the Border Minstrelsy Byron notes in the preface to Childe Harold that 'the good night in the beginning of the first canto was suggested by Lord Maxwell's Goodnight in the Border Minstrelsy '	A
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The Story John ninth Lord Maxwell killed Sir James Johnstone in the feud between the families was of long standing see beginning in Lord Maxwell fled the country and was sentenced to death in his absence On his return in he was betrayed by a kinsman and beheaded at Edinburgh on May This was the end of the feud which contained cases of treachery and perfidy on both sides	B
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'Robert of Oarchyardtoun' was Sir Robert Maxwell of Orchardton Lord Maxwell's cousin	C
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'Drumlanrig ' 'Cloesburn ' and 'the laird of Lagg' were respectively named Douglas Kirkpatrick and Grierson	C
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The Maxwells had houses or custody of houses at Dumfries Lochmaben Langholm and Thrieve and Carlaverock Castle is still theirs	D
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As for Lord Maxwell's 'lady and only joy ' the ballad neglects the fact that he instituted a process of divorce against her and that she died while it was pending in five years before the date of the 'Goodnight '	-
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LORD MAXWELL'S LAST GOODNIGHT	E
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'Adiew madam my mother dear	F
But and my sisters two	G
Adiew fair Robert of Oarchyardtoun	C
For thee my heart is woe	H
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'Adiew the lilly and the rose	I
The primrose sweet to see	J
Adiew my lady and only joy	K
For I manna stay with thee	J
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'Tho' I have killed the laird Johnston	C
What care I for his feed	L
My noble mind dis still incline	C
He was my father's dead	M
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'Both night and day I laboured oft	N
Of him revenged to be	J
And now I've got what I long sought	O
But I manna stay with thee	J
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'Adiew Drumlanrig false was ay	P
And Cloesburn in a band	Q
Where the laird of Lagg fra my father fled	M
When the Johnston struck off his hand	Q
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'They were three brethren in a band	Q
Joy may they never see	J
But now I've got what I long sought	O
And I maunna stay with thee	J
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'Adiew Dumfries my proper place	R
But and Carlaverock fair	S
Adiew the castle of the Thrieve	T
And all my buildings there	S
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'Adiew Lochmaben's gates so fair	S
The Langholm shank where birks they be	J
Adiew my lady and only joy	K
And trust me I maunna stay with thee	J
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'Adiew fair Eskdale up and down	C
Where my poor friends do dwell	U
The bangisters will ding them down	C
And will them sore compel	U
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'But I'll revenge that feed mysell	U
When I come ou'r the sea	J
Adiew my lady and only joy	K
For I maunna stay with thee '	-
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'Lord of the land will you go then	C
Unto my father's place	R
And walk into their gardens green	C
And I will you embrace	R
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'Ten thousand times I'll kiss your face	R
And sport and make you merry '	-
'I thank thee my lady for thy kindness	V
But trust me I maunna stay with thee '	-
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Then he took off a great gold ring	W
Whereat hang signets three	J
'Hae take thee that my ain dear thing	W
And still hae mind of me	J
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'But if thow marry another lord	X
Ere I come ou'r the sea	J
Adiew my lady and only joy	K
For I maunna stay with thee '	-
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The wind was fair the ship was close	Y
That good lord went away	P
And most part of his friends were there	S
To give him a fair convay	T
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They drank thair wine they did not spare	S
Even in the good lord's sight	E
Now he is o'er the floods so gray	P
And Lord Maxwell has ta'en his goodnight	E

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