For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain wad lie doun."

"Where gat ye the fishes, Lord Donald, my son?

Where gat ye the fishes, my jolly young man? ''

"In my fathers black ditches:—mither, mak my bed sune,

For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain would lie doun."

"What like were your fishes, Lord Donald, my son?

What like were your fishes, my jolly young man?"

"Black backs and speckl'd bellies:—mither, mak my bed sune,

For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain would lie doun."

"O I fear ye are poison'd, Lord Donald, my son!