As nobill, dreidfull, michtie campion:
The noble Stuarts syne, of great renoun,
Thow gart upspring, with branches new and greine,
Sae gloriouslie,—quhilk glaided all the toun:—
Be blyth and blissfull, burgh of Aberdein.
“Syne come thair four and twentie madinis ying,
All claid in greine of marvelous bewtie,
With hair detressit, as threidis of gold did hing,
With quhit hattis all browderit rycht bravelie
Playand on timberallis, and syngand rycht sweitlie;