For the three auld co’erlets was tane off her bed.

62.

‘Hae, take thee there twa as good kye,

I trow, as all thy three might be;

And yet here is a white-footed naigg,

I think he’le carry both thee and me.

63.

‘But I may no langer in Cumberland dwell;

The Armstrongs they’le hang me high.’

But Dickie has tane leave at lord and master,