‘Weel may yea steel a cow or a ewe,
But ye darna steel my boney Peggy.’
4
Up then spoke her mother dear,
Dear vow! but she spoke wondrious sorey;
‘Now, since I’ve brought ye up this length,
Wod ye gang awa wee a Highland fellow?’
5
He set her on his boney black horse,
He set himsel on his good gray nagy;