6
To Leesome Brand she then did say,
'In this place I can nae mair stay.
7
'Ye do you to my father's stable,
Where steeds do stand baith wight and able.
8
'Strike ane o them upo the back,
The swiftest will gie his head a wap.
9
'Ye take him out upo the green,
And get him saddled and bridled seen.
10
'Get ane for you, anither for me,
And lat us ride out ower the lee.
11
'Ye do you to my mother's coffer,
And out of it ye'll take my tocher.
12
'Therein are sixty thousand pounds,
Which all to me by right belongs.'
13
He's done him to her father's stable,
Where steeds stood baith wicht and able.
14
Then he strake ane upon the back,
The swiftest gae his head a wap.
15
He's taen him out upo the green,
And got him saddled and bridled seen.