And my lord shall nae mair come near me.’

8

And when our lord came hame at een,

And speir’d for his fair lady,

The tane she cry’d, and the other reply’d,

‘She’s away with the gypsie laddie.’

9

‘Gae saddle to me the black, black steed,

Gae saddle and make him ready;

Before that I either eat or sleep,