5
‘Is it to a laird? or is it to a lord?
Or a baron of high degree?
Or is it William, my bonnie kitchen-boy?
Tell now the truth to me.’
6
‘It’s no to a laird, and it’s no to a lord,
Nor a baron of high degree;
But it’s to William, your bonnie kitchen-boy:
What cause hae I to lee?’