20

‘But a fat horse, and a fair woman,

Twa bony dogs to kill a deir:

But Ingland suld haif found me meil and malt,

Gif I had livd this hundred yeir!

21

‘Scho suld half found me meil and malt,

And beif and mutton in all plentie;

But neir a Scots wyfe could haif said

That eir I skaithd her a pure flie.