"She's daft to refuse the laird o' Cockpen."
——Carolina, Lady Nairne.
(Stanzas added by Miss Ferrier)
And now that the laird his exit had made,
Mistress Jean she reflected on what she had said;
"Oh, for ane I'll get better, its waur I'll get ten,
I was daft to refuse the laird o' Cockpen."
Next time that the laird and the lady were seen,
They were gaun arm-in-arm to the kirk on the green;
Now she sits in the ha like a weel-tappit hen,