A boon, a boon, I beg o thee,

And the first boon that I come to crave

Is to grant me the life of Young Logie.’

7

‘O na, O na, May Margaret,

Forsooth, and so it mauna be;

For a’ the gowd o fair Scotland

Shall not save the life of Young Logie.’

8

But she has stown the king’s redding-kaim,