a. Herd’s Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, 1769, p. 308. b. Johnson’s Museum, No 110, p. 113.

1

It was on an evning sae saft and sae clear

A bonny lass was milking the kye,

And by came a troup of gentlemen,

And rode the bonny lassie by.

2

Then one of them said unto her,

‘Bonny lass, prythee shew me the way:’

‘O if I do sae, it may breed me wae,