‘Oh, I will card, and I will spin,
And never mair think on my gentle kin.
9
‘Oh, I will wash, and I will wring,
And never mair think on my gouden ring.’
10
A’ ye wha hae gotten a gentle wife
Send ye for the wee cooper o Fife.
D
Jamieson-Brown MS., Appendix, p. iii, letter of R. Scott to Jamieson, June 9, 1805.