12

‘Grant me my lyfe, my liege, my king,

And a bony gift I’ll gie to thee;

Gude four-and-twenty ganging mills,

That gang throw a’ the yeir to me.

13

‘These four-and-twenty mills complete

Sall gang for thee throw all the yeir,

And as mekle of gude reid wheit

As all their happers dow to bear.’