Twenty weeks and three,

The lassie begoud to spit and spue,

And thought lang for ‘s blinkin ee.

22

’Twas on a day, and a day near bye,

She was ca’ing out the kye,

That by cam a troop o merry gentlemen,

Cam riding bye that way.

23

‘Wha’s gien ye the scorn, bonnie may?