‘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,