4
‘I’ve ten young men all at my back,
That ance to me were baith true and steady;
If ance I call, they’ll soon be nigh,
And bring to me my bonny Peggy.’
5
Out it spake her mother then,
Dear! but she spake wondrous saucy;
Says, Ye may steal my cow or ewe,
But I’ll keep sight o my ain lassie.