10

And when they cam to the house-end,

Wi mony a nicker but an a neigh,

They waukend the auld wife out o her sleep;

She was a-dreaming she was fouie.

11

‘Rise up, rise up, my servant-lass,

Let in your master and his mear;’

‘It’s by my sooth,’ the wee lassie goud say,

‘I’m in a sleeping drowsy air.’