He’s cursed her father and mother,

For the sake o Lady Margery

He’s cursed her sister and brother.

16

And for the sake o Lady Margery

He’s cursed all her kin;

He cried, Scotland is the ae warst place

That ever my fit was in!

O, added in singing to the second and fourth lines of each stanza, is sometimes not written in the MS.

9 is written as the third and fourth lines of 8.