‘Your gear it’s no sae readie;

I’ll neer forsake Earl Rothes’s companie,

And I don’t gie a fig for his ladie.’

5

‘I’ll keep ye i the castle, Lady Ann,

O servants ye shall hae monie;

I’ll keep ye till ye’re safely brocht to bed,

And I’ll mak you a marquis’s ladie.’

6

‘I do not value your castle,’ she says,