Till once, in an unlucky time,

She threw her in ower Craigy’s sea.

3.

3.3 ‘Kemp’ = champion, knight. Cp. ‘Childe’ in Childe Maurice, etc.

3.4 ‘borrow,’ ransom.

Says, ‘Lie you there, dove Isabel,

And all my sorrows lie with thee;

Till Kemp Owyne come ower the sea,

And borrow you with kisses three,

Let all the warld do what they will,