‘Ryde on, ryde on, ye rank rydars,

Your steeds are stout and strang,

For out o the yowe-buchts I winna gae,

For fear that ye do me some wrang.’

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He took her by the milk-white hand,

And by the green gown-sleive,

And thare he took his will o her,

Bot o her he askit nae leive.

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