9

‘Syne gin ye winna come doun,’ he said,

‘A’ for to speak to me,

I’ll tye the bands around my waist,

And fire thy death sall be.’

10

‘I’d leifer be burnt in ashes sma,

And cuist in yon sea-faem,

Or I’d gie up this bonnie castell,

And my gude lord frae hame.