Sae we’ll baith lie in ae bed, and ye’se lie at the wa’.’

15.

‘O haud awa’ frae me, kind sir, I pray don’t me perplex,

For I’ll na lie in your bed till ye answer questions six:

Questions six ye maun answer me, and that is four and twa,

Before I lie in your bed, at either stock or wa’.

16.

‘O what is greener than the gress, what’s higher than thae trees?

O what is worse than women’s wish, what’s deeper than the seas?

What bird craws first, what tree buds first, what first does on them fa’?