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

‘Our mear has gotten a waly foal.’

14

‘Ye clatter, ye clatter, ye servant-lass,

It is the moon shines in your ee;’

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

‘It’s mair than ever her ain will be.’

16

It’s whan the stable-groom awoke,

Put a’ the nobles in a fear;