May Margaret sits in the queen’s bouir,

Knicking her fingers ane be ane,

Cursing the day that she ere was born,

Or that she ere heard o Logie’s name.


B.

61. and towirs in ed. 1776.

Qu in what, etc., is rendered by w, and z in ze, etc., by y.

C.

Maidment’s copy has some slight variations, such as often occur in different issues of stall-prints.