‘Now ye hae taul your tale, mother,

I pray, Lord Justice, you’l now hear me.

9

‘He has na broken her bonny castel,

That was well biggit wi lime an stane,

Nor has he stoln her rich jewels,

For I wot she has them every one.

10

‘But tho he was my first true love,

An tho I had sworn to be his bride,