29.
29.1 ‘bierly,’ stately.
Then out it spake the bierly bride,
Was a’ goud to the chin:
‘Gin she be braw without,’ she says,
‘We’s be as braw within.’
30.
Then up it starts him, Young Bekie,
An’ the tears was in his ee:
‘I’ll lay my life it’s Burd Isbel,