The first step she stepped,
She stepped on a stane,
The next step she stepped,
She met the Lammikin.80
And when she saw the red, red blude,
A loud skriech skrieched she:
"O monster, monster, spare my child,
Who never skaithed thee!
"O spare, if in your bluidy breast85
Abides not heart of stane!
O spare, an' ye sall hae o' gold
That ye can carry hame!"
"I carena for your gold," he said,
"I carena for your fee:90
I hae been wranged by your lord,
Black vengeance ye sall drie.
"Here are nae serfs to guard your haa's,
Nae trusty spearmen here;
In yon green wood they sound the horn,95
And chace the doe and deer.
"Tho merry sounds the gude green wood
Wi' huntsmen, hounds, and horn,
Your lord sall rue ere sets yon sun
He has done me skaith and scorn."100
"O nourice, wanted ye your meat,
Or wanted ye your fee,
Or wanted ye for any thing,
A fair lady could gie?"
"I wanted for nae meat, ladie,105
I wanted for nae fee;
But I wanted for a hantle
A fair lady could gie."
Then Lammikin drew his red, red sword,
And sharped it on a stane,110
And through and through this fair ladie,
The cauld, cauld steel is gane.