evils

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“It fell on a summer’s afternoon,When a’ our toilsome work was done,We coost the kevils us amang,To see which suld to the green-wood gang.

From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew

The king's daughters 'Cast kevils them amang, To see who will to greenwood gang'; and the lot falls upon the youngest and fairest—the youngest is always the fairest and most beloved in the ballad.

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

And they have taen a kerchief, Casted their kevils in, For wha should tae the parlour gae, And stay that deadlie din.

From Rhyme? And Reason? by Carroll, Lewis

And we keest kevils us amang, Bowing down, bowing down; To see who would to greenwood gang, And aye the birks a' bowing.'

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

It fell on a summer's afternoon, 70 When a' our toilsome task was done, We cast the kevils us amang, To see which suld to the grene-wood gang.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various