‘A gude rede gie to mee:

O sall I tak the nut-browne bride,

And let Faire Annet bee?’

5.

‘The nut-browne bride haes gowd and gear,

Fair Annet she has gat nane;

And the little beauty Fair Annet haes,

O it wull soon be gane.’

6.

And he has till his brother gane: