When by there came a gallant hende,

42.

42.1 ‘high-coll’d ... laigh-coll’d,’ high-cut ... low-cut.

‘Wi’ high-coll’d hose and laigh-coll’d shoon,

And he seem’d to be some king’s son.

43.

‘And be I maid, or be I nae,

He kept me there till the close o’ day.

44.

‘And be I maid, or be I nane,