But they went as they came, and left a’ things undone,

And the young man busy baking.


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a. Kinloch MSS, VII, 171; from the recitation of Mrs Charles, Torry. b. Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 127.

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‘I am the Duke o Athole’s nurse,

My part does weill become me,

And I wad gie aw my half-year’s fee

For ae sicht o my Johnie.’