Tho’ your father and his men were here, of them I’d stand na awe,
But should tak ye to my ain bed, and lay ye neist the wa’.’
6.
Then he lap aff his milk-white steed, and set the lady on,
And a’ the way he walk’d on foot, he held her by the hand;
He held her by the middle jimp, for fear that she should fa’;
Saying, ‘I’ll tak ye to my ain bed, and lay thee at the wa’.’
7.
7.1 ‘quartering-house,’ lodging-house.
He took her to his quartering-house, his landlady looked ben,