Of all the lords in fair Scotland
A song I will begin;
Amongst them all there dwelled a lord,
Which was the unthrifty lord of Linne.
2.
2.3,4 Interchanged in manuscript.
2.4 ‘blin,’ stop.
His father and mother were dead him fro,
And so was the head of all his kin;
To the cards and dice that he did run