Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance / Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series

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Till crooked and blind and a’ wad steal.’

31.

‘But will thou lend me thy bay?’ Fair Johnë Armstrong can say,

‘There’s nae mae horse loose in the stable but he;

And I’le either bring ye Dick o’ the Kow again.

Or the day is come that he must die.’

32.

32.⁴ The copy reads ’should no make.‘

‘To lend thee my bay,’ the Laird’s Jock can say,

‘He’s both worth gold and good monie;