‘I’ve four-and-twenty good milk-kye,

A’ calved in a[e] year, maid,

And a bonnie bill to eisin them,

Just as red as your hair, maid.’

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‘Your kye go as far in my heart

As they go in my heel, sir;

And, altho I be but a shepherd’s dochter,

I love my body weel, sir.

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