‘The bonniest lass that eer I saw,
She dwells in the hie town hie.
3
‘I wad give a guinea of red gold,
Sae wad I a pint of wine,
To onie of the hostler-wives
That wad wyle to me the bonnie lassie in.’
4
Up then spake the hostler’s wife,
And an ill death may she die!