Kinloch MSS, I, 297; from the recitation of T. Kinnear, Stonehaven.

1

‘O whare hae ye been, my dearest dear,

These seven lang years and more?’

‘O I am come to seek my former vows,

That ye promisd me before.’

2

‘Awa wi your former vows,’ she says,

‘Or else ye will breed strife;

Awa wi your former vows,’ she says,