‘Now let your father bring hame the ky,

You neer mair shall ca them agen.

11

‘I am a lord of castles and towers,

With fifty ploughs of land and three,

And I have gotten the bonniest lass

That is in this countrie.’


C

Kinloch MSS, VII, 143, from the recitation of Jenny Watson, 24 April, 1826; Clydesdale.