‘Ye may say as ye like, ye silly auld man,

There’s a man in oor dochter’s bed.’

11

I dinna ken what’s taen the auld wife’s fit,

But into the creel she flew;

The young clerk[‘s brither] being at the chimney-top,

He found the creel was fu.

12

He’s thrown the rope out-owre his shouther,

And to him he did draw;