‘This goodlie gift shall be your ain,
And let me be lighter of my young bairn.’
17.
‘O’ her young bairn she’ll ne’er be lighter,
Nor in her bower to shine the brighter.
18.
‘But she shall die and turn to clay,
And ye shall wed another may.’
19.
19 ‘I’ll’ is ‘I’ in both lines in the MS.