15

‘Than will yon come hame, my hinnie and my love?’

Quoth he to his charming dearie,

‘And I’ll keep ye aye in a braw close room,

Where the gypsies will never can steer ye.’

16

Said she, ‘I can swear by the sun and the stars,

And the moon whilk shines sae clearie,

That I am as chaste for the gypsie Jockie Faw

As the day my minnie did bear me.’