4

‘Come down stairs now, Madam,’ he says,

‘Now come down and kiss me fairly;’

‘I’ll neither come down nor kiss you,’ she says,

‘Tho you should na leave a standing stane in Airley.’

5

‘I ask but one favour of you, Argyle,

And I hope you’ll grant me fairly

To tak me to some dark dowey glen,

That I may na see the plundering of Airley.’