‘Wha has dune to you this ill, my dear?

Wha has dune to you this wrang?’

And she had na a word to say for hersell

But, ‘Kind sir, I hae a man o my ain.’

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‘Ye lie, ye lie, bonnie May,’ he says,

‘Aloud I hear ye lie!

For dinna ye mind yon bonnie simmer nicht

Whan ye war in the yowe-buchts wi me?

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