“The truth ye’ll tell to me, Tamlane:
A word ye mauna lie;
Gin e’er ye was in haly chapel,
Or sained in Christentie?”—
“The truth I’ll tell to thee, Janet,
A word I winna lee:
My father’s a knight, a lady me bore,
As well as they did thee.
“Randolph, earl Murray, was my sire,
Dunbar, earl March, is thine;