The bravest in the company;
‘To every one I will give a guinea,
A guinea and a pint of wine,
To the ostler’s wife I wald double it a’,
If she’d entice that young lassie in.’
3
The old wife tripped down the stair,
And aye she said, ‘A good morrow, dame!’
And aye she said, an the maid replied,
‘What is your will wi me, madam?’