An Peggie’s come back again, beggin her bread.
The landladie looked wi the tail o her ee:
‘O foul fa ye, Peggie, for leaving o me.’
There is also a ballad of a valiant trooper and a pretty Peggy who, at first inconstant, turns out a loving wife, in Pepys, IV, 40, No 37.
A is translated by Gerhard, p. 189.
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One evening as a maid did walk,
The moon was shining clearly,
She heard a trooper at the gates,