Out o' my sight soon may'st thou be!

I grantit never a traitor's life,

And now I'll not begin wi' thee."

"Grant me my life, my liege, my King!

And a bonny gift I'll gie to thee—

Full four-and-twenty milk-white steids,

Were a' foal'd in ae yeir to me.

"I'll gie thee a' these milk-white steids,

That prance and nicker at a speir;

And as mickle gude Inglish gilt,