‘His hound is to the hunting gane,

His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,

His lady’s ta’en another mate,

So we may mak’ our dinner sweet.

[4.]

4.1 ‘hause-bane,’ neck-bone.

4.4 ‘theek,’ thatch.

‘Ye’ll sit on his white hause bane,

And I’ll pike out his bonny blue een:

Wi’ ae lock o’ his gowden hair,