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.