A fragment in Herd’s MSS, I, 105, II, 161, belongs, if not to this ballad, at least to one in which an attempt is made to tame a shrew by castigation.
‘Now tak a cud in ilka hand
And bace[90] her up and doun, man,
And she’ll be an o the best wives
That ever took the town, man.’
And Jammie’s turnd him round about,
He’s done a manly feat:
‘Get up, get up, ye dirty slut,
And gie to me my meat.’