Have not I a worthy ladie?’

17

She mounted him on the bonnie dapple grey,

Herself on the wee poney,

And she rode home on his right hand,

All for the pride o Geordie.


G

Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 17, p. 10; from Mrs Rule, Paisley, August 16, 1825. Apparently learned from a blind aunt, pp. 1, 3.

1