And aye my bells I rang,
And aye cry’d, Waken, waken, master,
Before the lady gang.’
13.
‘But haste and haste, my gude white steed.
To come the maiden till,
Or a’ the birds of gude green wood
Of your flesh shall have their fill.’
14.
14.2 ‘howm’ = holme, the level low ground on the banks of a river or stream. —Jamieson.