THE BONNIE LASS MADE THE BED TO ME.
“The Bonnie Lass made the Bed to me,” was composed on an amour of Charles II. when skulking in the North, about Aberdeen, in the time of the usurpation. He formed une petite affaire with a daughter of the house of Portletham, who was the “lass that made the bed to him:”—two verses of it are,
“I kiss’d her lips sae rosy red,
While the tear stood blinkin in her e’e;
I said, My lassie, dinna cry,
For ye ay shall make the bed to me.
She took her mither’s holland sheets,
And made them a’ in sarks to me;
Blythe and merry may she be,
The lass that made the bed to me.”