But heard the roaring of the sea.

O they rade on, and further on,

Until they came to a garden green:

"Light down, light down, ye ladie free,

Some of that fruit let me pull to thee."

"O no, O no, True Thomas," she says,

"That fruit maun not be touched by thee,

For a' the plagues that are in hell

Light on the fruit of this countrie.

"But I have a loaf here in my lap,