‘I wish I had died my own fai[r] death,
In tender age, qn I was young;
I would never have broke my heart
For ye love of any churl’s son.
‘Wo be to my parents all,
Yt lives so farr beyond ye sea!
I might have lived a noble life,
And wedded in my own countrë.’
Finlay’s Scottish Ballads, I, xxxii.