And waukend the silly poor harper’s wife,

As she was a sleeping at her ease.

12

‘Rise up, rise up, ye servant-lass,

Let in the maister and the mear;’

‘By my sooth,’ quoth the servant-lass,

‘I think my maister be na here.’

13

Up then rose the servant-lass,

And lookit through a wee, wee hole;