‘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.