The priving was good, it pleasd them baith,

To loe her for ay he gae her his aith;

Quo she, To leave thee, I will be laith,

My winsome gaberlunyie-man.

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‘O kend my minny I were wi you,

Illfardly wad she crook her mou;

Sic a poor man she’d never trow,

After the gaberlunyie-man.’

‘My dear,’ quo he, ‘ye’r yet oer young,