"See [ye] not where yonder fair castle5
Stands on yon lily lee?
The laird and I hae a deadly feud,
The lady fain would I see."
As she was up on the househead,
Behold, on looking down,10
She saw Adam o' Gordon and his men,
Coming riding to the town.
The dinner was not well set down,
Nor the grace was scarcely said,
Till Adam o' Gordon and his men15
About the walls were laid.
"It's fause now fa' thee, Jock my man,
Thou might a let me be;
Yon man has lifted the pavement stone,
An' let in the loun to me."20
"Seven years I served thee, fair ladie,
You gave me meat and fee;
But now I am Adam o' Gordon's man,
An' maun either do it or die."
"Come down, come down, my Lady Loudoun,25
Come [thou down] unto me;
I'll wrap thee on a feather bed,
Thy warrand I shall be."
"I'll no come down, I'll no come down,
For neither laird nor loun,30
Nor yet for any bloody butcher
That lives in Altringham town.
"I would give the black," she says,
"And so would I the brown,
If that Thomas, my only son,35
Could charge to me a gun."
Out then spake the Lady Margaret,
As she stood on the stair,—
The fire was at her goud garters,
The lowe was at her hair.40