"Now ye shall eat as I do eat,
And lye as I do lye;
Ye salna wear nae waur claithing
Nor my young men and I."
Then they went to a ruinous house,105
And there they enter'd in;
And Nicholas fed wi' Robin Hood,
And Roger wi' little John.
But it fell ance upon a day,
They were at the putting-stane;110
Whan Rose the Red she view'd them a',
As they stood on the green.
She hit the stane then wi' her foot,
And kep'd it wi' her knee;
And spaces three aboon them a',115
I wyte she gar'd it flee.
She sat her back then to a tree,
And ga'e a loud Ohon!
A lad spak in the companie,
"I hear a woman's moan."120
"How know you that, young man," she said,
"How know you that o' me?
Did e'er ye see me in that place
A'e foot my ground to flee?
"Or know ye by my cherry cheeks,125
Or by my yellow hair?
Or by the paps on my breast bane?
Ye never saw them bare."
"I know not by your cherry cheeks,
Nor by your yellow hair;130
But I know by your milk-white chin,
On it there grows nae hair.
"I never saw you in that cause
A'e foot your ground to flee;
I've seen you stan' wi' sword in han'135
'Mang men's blood to the knee.
"But if I come your bower within,
By night, or yet by day,
I shall know before I go,
If ye be man or may."140