That play'd before the king;
And he play'd success to the bonny boy,
Came thro' the wood him lane.
(strattlins, straddlings (?). ben, in.)
Now when he came before the king,
Fell low down on his knee:
The king he turned round about,
And the saut tear blinded his ee.
"Win up, win up, my bonny boy,
Gang frae my company;