"If you have bonnie halls and bowers,
O mine is bonnie tee; 70
Go from my yetts now, Reedisdale,
For me you shall not see."
"Come down, come down, my lady fair,
A sight of you I'll see;
And bonnie is my lands so broad 75
That I will give to thee."
"If you have bonnie lands so broad,
O mine is bonnie tee;
Go from my yetts now, Reedisdale,
For me you will not see." 80
"Come down, come down, my lady fair
A sight of you I'll see;
And bonnie is the bags of gold
That I will give to thee."
"If you have bonnie bags of gold, 85
I have bags of the same;
Go from my yetts now, Reedisdale,
For down I will not come."
"Come down, come down, my lady fair,
One sight of you I'll see; 90
Or else I'll set your house on fire,
If better cannot be."
Then he has set the house on fire,
And all the rest it took;
He turned his wight horse head about, 95
Said, "Alas! they'll ne'er get out."
"Look out, look out, my maidens fair,
And see what I do see;
How Reedisdale has fired our house,
And now rides o'er the lea. 100
"Come hitherward, my maidens fair,
Come hither unto me;
For through this reek, and through this smeek,
O through it we must be."
They took wet mantles them about, 105
Their coffers by the band;
And through the reek, and through the flame,
Alive they all have wan.