This day that can dare to hang me.’

18

Then up bespak Lizie’s best woman,

And a bonnie young lass was she;

‘Had I but a mark in my pouchie,

It’s Donald that I wad gae wi.’

19

‘O Helen, wad ye leave your coffer,

And a’ your silk kirtles sae braw,

And gang wi a bare-houghd puir laddie,