XLVII
‘It’s I, Watty Wudspurs, loose the kye,
I winna layne my name frae thee!
And I will loose out the Captain’s kye,
In scorn of a’ his men and he.’
XLVIII
Whan they cam to the fair Dodhead,
They were a wellcum sight to see!
For instead of his ain ten milk kye,
Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three.
XLIX
And he has paid the rescue shot,
Baith wi’ gowd and white monie;
And at the burial o’ Willie Scott,
I wat was mony a weeping e’e.
FOOTNOTES:
[1221] laigh = low.
[1222] peel = stronghold, keep.
[1223] rowing = rolling.