Gin ye drink o’ my wine, ye’ll nae gar my bluid spin.
7.
7.1 ‘widifu’s,’ gallows-birds (lit. ‘halter-fulls’).
‘Gin ye be hir’d widifu’s, ye may gang by,
Ye may gang to the lowlands and steal their fat ky.
8.
8.1 ‘rievers,’ robbers; ‘ketterin’ = cateran, marauder freebooter.
‘Ther spulyie like rievers o’ wyld ketterin clan,
Who plunder unsparing baith houses and lan’.
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