Whare left ye your men?’
‘I left them in the Stapler,
But they’ll never come hame.’
6
‘Bonny Willie Macintosh,
Whare now is your men?’
‘I left them in the Stapler,
Sleeping in their sheen.’
B
Finlay’s Scottish Ballads, II, 89, 1808, as recollected by a lady and communicated by Walter Scott.