‘O had you a stranger here last night,
Or is he within your dwalling?’
9
‘O I had a stranger here last night,
But he wos gane or dawing;
He ca’d for a pint, and he paid it or he went,
And I hae nae mair to do wi his lawing.’
10
They stabd the feather-beds round and round,
The curtains they spared na to tear them;