And one of them you must grant to me.'

'Ask on, ask on, daughter,' he said;

'And aye weel answered ye shall be;

For if it were my whole estate,

Naysaid, naysaid you shall not be.'

'I ask none of your gold, father,

As little of your white monie;

But all the asken that I do ask,

It is the life of James Hatelie.'

'Ask on, ask on, daughter,' he said;