"Mak haste, mak haste, my mirry men all,

Our guid schip sails the morne."

"O say na sae, my master deir,

Fir I feir a deadlie storme.

"Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone

Wi' the auld moone in hir arme,

And I feir, I feir, my deir master,

That we will cum to harme."

O our Scots nobles wer richt laith[169]

To weet[170] their cork-heil'd schoone;