They raise a wee[1036] before the cock,

And wyliely they shot the lock,

And fast to the bent[1037] are they gane.

Up the morn the auld wife raise,

And at her leisure put on her claiths,

Syne to the servants’ bed she gaes

To speir[1038] for the silly poor man.

She gaed[1039] to the bed whair the beggar lay;

The strae was cauld, he was away;

Scho clapt her hands, cry’d “Dulefu’ day!