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,