For I’ve got cows and ewes already;

I come na to steal your owsen and kye,

But I will steal your bonny Peggy.’

5

He set her on a milk-white steed,

And he himsel rode a gude grey naigie,

And they are on mony miles to the north,

And nane wi them but the bonny Peggy.

6

‘I hae fifty acres o gude red lan,