But as it fell out on last Hallow-even,

When the seely court was ridin by,

The queen lighted down on a gowany bank,

Nae far frae the tree where I wont to lye.

She took me up in her milk-white han,

An she's stroakd me three times oer her knee;

She chang'd me again to my ain proper shape,

An I nae mair maun writhle about the tree.

[420]

SIR HUGH, OR, THE JEW'S DAUGHTER