‘I took ye for some gentleman, at least the Laird of Brodie;
O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor bodie?’
11
He took the lassie in his arms and gae her kisses three,
And four-and-twenty hunder merk to pay the nurice-fee.
12
He took a horn frae his side and blew baith loud and shrill,
And four-and-twenty belted knights came skipping oer the hill.
13
And he took out his little knife, loot a’ his duddies fa,