7 'How will we get her wakent?
how will we get her down?'
'We'll pierce the baby's heart's blood,'
says the fause nurse to him.
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8 'Come, please the babe, nurse,
come please it wi the keys:'
'It'll no be pleased, madam,
tho I'll down on my knees.'
9 'Come, please the babe, nurse,
come, please it wi the knife:'
'It'll no be pleased, madam,
should I lay down my life.'
10 'Come, please the babe, nurse,
come, please it wi the bell:'
'It'll no be pleased, madam,
till ye come down yoursel.'
11 'How can I come down, how can I come,
sae late in the night,
And neither coal nor candle,
for to shew me light?'
12 The first step she steppit,
she steppit on a stane;
The next step she steppit,
she met the Bauld Rankin.
13 'O spare my life, Rankin,
O spare it most dear!
I'll gie you as monie guineas
as birds in the air.
14 'O spare my life, Rankin,
O save it most sweet!
I'll gie you as monie guineas
as there's stanes in the street.'
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