Or rides your steed for you ower high?

Or are you mourning, in your tide,

That you should be Cospatrick's bride?"

"I am not mourning, at this tide,

That I should be Cospatrick's bride;

But I am sorrowing in my mood,

That I should leave my mother good.

"But, gentle boy, come tell to me,

What is the custom of thy country?"—

"The custom thereof, my dame," he says,