The CD is 'Graysteil' and contains music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Scotland. The final track is called 'Graysteil' * Anon. Medieval Romance (abridged). It is the lyrics from this track I wish to have. The CD info is DIS-80141 1997 DORIAN DISCOVERY (Manufactured in the USA).
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Music from the Middle Ages in Scotland
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Still trying to track down lyric you refer to - it would be a shortened version of much longer ballad 'Greysteil' which was a long Romance very popular in Renaissance Scotland and still sold in editions into the 17th century. A version was played to James IV in 1497. Has been suggested it was developed from French Romances - possibly borrowing from Gawain. Greysteil is also the name of an old tune which became associated with the ballad. For that see here:
April 17th
The ballad (or romance) 'Greysteil' became so popular the name was adopted as a nickname thereafter...an epithet for a gallant warrior or upright citizen.
For a version of the story of Greystiel see here:
Elfinspell: The Story of Gray-Steel, Early English Romances in Verse done into Modern English by Edith Rickert; Romances of Friendship, online text
