‘Your servants are no sae readie;

Earl Rothes will keep me till I’m brocht to bed,

And he’ll mak me a marquis’s ladie.’

7

‘Woe be to thee, Earl Rothes,’ he says,

‘And the mark o the judge be upon thee,

For the using o this poor thing sae,

For the using my sister so badly.

8

‘When I’m come to the years of a man,