‘I’ll do better to you than ever I’ve done,

Fair Annie, gin ye’ll come an see.’

13

‘O Guid forbid,’ said fair Annie,

‘That e’er the like fa in my hand!

Woud I forsake my ain gude lord

And follow you, a gae-through-land?

14

‘Yet nevertheless now, sweet Tamas,

Ye’ll drink a cup o wine wi me,