321. Findlay MSS, I, 120. ‘The Yerle o Aboyne,’ from Mrs Main, Inchmarlo, Kincardineshire.

1

The Yerle o Aboyne’s to London gane,

He met in wi a temptin woman;

For she sat an sang an birld at the wine,

An she wadna lat him hame fae Lunon.

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2

‘My cook-maids a’, be well in ca,

Had pots an pans a boilin,