An’ I woud na gi’ Brown Adam’s love
For nae fa’se knight I see.’
12.
12.2 ‘string’: i.e. the top; purses were bags with a running string to draw the top together.
Out he has ta’en a purse of gold,
Was a’ fu’ to the string:
‘Grant me but love for love, lady,
An’ a’ this sal be thine.’
13.
‘I loo Brown Adam well,’ she says,