50.

‘If that be true thou to me tels

(I trow thou dare not tel a lie),

I’le give thee twenty pound for the good horse,

Wel tel’d in thy cloke-lap shall be.

51.

‘And I’le give thee one of my best milk-kye

To maintain thy wife and children three;

And that may be as good, I think,

As ony twa o’ thine might be.’