As four o' their braid backs dow bear."

"Away, away, thou traitor strang!

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—

Gude four-and-twenty ganging mills,

That gang thro' a' the yeir to me.

* Rabbits.