‘Your haukis bluid was nevir sae reid,

Edward, Edward.

Your haukis bluid was nevir sae reid,

My deir son I tell thee, O.’

‘O, I hae killed my reid-roan steid,

Mither, mither:

O, I hae killed my reid-roan steid,

That erst was sae fair and frie, O.’

3.

3.4 ‘dule,’ grief; ‘drie,’ suffer.