And it’s alace for bonny Peggy Irvine!

11

The Earl of Aboyne was not at the Bog of Keith,

Nor met wi the Marquis of Huntley,

Till three broad letters were sent after him

That his pretty Peggy Irvine had left him.

12

He gave such a rap on the table where he sat

It made all the room for to tremble:

‘I would rather I had lost all the rents of Aboyne