"Ye sall hae your faith and troth,
Wi' God's blessing and mine:"
And twenty times she kissed his mouth,85
Her father looking on.
Then out it speaks him gay William:
"Come here, sweet Marjorie;
Will ye gie me my faith and troth,
And love, as I gae thee?"90
"Yes, ye sall hae your faith and troth,
Wi' God's blessing and mine:"
And twenty times she kissed his mouth,
Her father looking on.
* * * * * * *
"O ye'll tak aff your twa black hats,95
Lay them down on a stone,
That nane may ken that ye are clerks,
Till ye are putten doun."
The bonnie clerks they died that morn;
Their loves died lang ere noon;100
And the waefu' Clerk o' Owsenford
To his lady has gane hame.
PART SECOND.
His lady sat on her castle wa',
Beholding dale and doun;
And there she saw her ain gude lord
Come walking to the toun.