“The like was never in this countrie.

“There is a wedding in yonder hall,

Has lasted these thirty days and three;

Young Beichan will not wed his bride,

For love of one that’s yond the sea.”

She’s put her hand in her pocket,

Gi’en him the gold and white monie;

“Hae, take ye that, my bonny boy,

For the good news thou tell’st to me.”

When she came to young Beichan’s gate,