I wad tak her to my ain bed, and lay her at the wa’.’
2.
2.4 The ‘stock’ of a bed is the outer side, and the ‘wa’’ (= wall) the inner. Ancient beds were made like boxes with the outer side cut away.
‘I’m walking here my lane,’ she says, ‘amang my father’s trees;
And ye may lat me walk my lane, kind sir, now gin ye please.
The supper-bell it will be rung, and I’ll be miss’d awa’;
Sae I’ll na lie in your bed, at neither stock nor wa’.’
3.
He said, ‘My pretty lady, I pray lend me your hand,
And ye’ll hae drums and trumpets always at your command;