16
'When you come before the gate,
You'll ask for a drink for the highman's sake.'
17
When that he came before the gate,
He calld for a drink for the highman's sake.
18
The bride cam tripping down the stair,
To see whaten a bold beggar was there.
19
She gave him a drink with her own hand;
He loot the ring drop in the can.
20
'Got ye this by sea or land?
Or took ye't aff a dead man's hand?'
21
'I got na it by sea nor land,
But I got it aff your own hand.'
22
The bridegroom cam tripping down the stair,
But there was neither bride nor beggar there.
23
Her ain bridegroom had her first wed,
But Young Hyn Horn had her first to bed.
D.
Cromek's Select Scotish Songs, II, 204.