Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 70; written down from memory by Mr Nicol, Strichen, as learned in his earlier years from old people
1
When Reedisdale and Wise William
Were drinking at the wine,
There fell a roosing them amang,
On an unruly time.
2
For some o them hae roosd their hawks,
And other some their hounds,
And other some their ladies fair,