"Omy head it pains me sair;"

"Then take, then take," the maiden said,

"And frae my sark you'll cut a gare."

Then she's gi'ed him a little bane-knife,

And frae her sark he cut a share;

She's tied it round his whey-white face,

But ay his head it ached mair.

Then louder cried the Clerk Colvill,

"O sairer, sairer aches my head;"

"And sairer, sairer ever will,"