’Becca Rudd, Mary Mo’son, Ruth Lytle, an’ mair;

Thoo says it’s o’ fūn, an’ sec fūn ma’ be fair,

But it doesn’t seem jannic to me.

I favour’t the’, ey! abeùn o’ t’ lads aboot;

I thowte, like a feùl, ’at thū’d sing-elt me oot

Frae t’ tūdders, an’ I’ve been reet sarra’t, na doobt,

To trust sec a taistrel as thee.

Reet sarra’t? Ey, mess! I was warn’t gaily weel,—

I was tel’t hoo thū’d feùl’t an’ than left Greàcy Peile;

An’ what reet hed I to believe thoo wad deal