30.3,4 Cp. The Unquiet Grave, 5.3,4.

‘My mouth it is full cold, Margret,

It has the smell now of the ground;

And if I kiss thy comely mouth,

Thy life days will not be long.

31.

31.1 ‘mid-larf,’ probably corrupt: changed by Scott to ‘midnight.’ The meaning is unknown.

‘Cocks are crowing a merry mid-larf,

I wat the wild fule boded day;

Gie me my faith and trouthe again.