16

‘O pardon, my lord, if I’ve done wrong;

Forgive a simple caddie;

O pardon, pardon, Earl o Aboyne,

I said but what she bade me.’

17

‘Ye have done no wrong, my bonny boy,

Ye’ve done no wrong, my caddie;’

Wi hat in hand he bowed low,

Gave the letter to the rantin laddie.