For a’ the gold in Christenty.

43

‘But throw me thro my irons, Dicky,

I wait they cost me full dear;’

‘O devil be there,’ quo Jocky Hall,

‘They’l be good shoon to my gray mare.’

44

O up bespoke then Jock the laird,

‘This has been a dearsome night to me;

For yesternight the Cawfield was my ain,