You's never be the worse of me.'
'I did not steal them,' James he said;
'And neither was it intended by me,
For the English they stole them themselves,
And I wat they've laid the blame on me.'
Now she has hame to her father gane,
And bowed her low down on her knee,
'I ask—I ask—I ask, father,' she said,
'I ask—I ask a boon of thee;
I never asked one in my life,