At yae[380] tett[381] o’ her horse’s mane
Was tied a silver bell,
And yae tift[382] o’ the norland wind
It gar’d them a’ to knell.
XXII
Four and twenty gay good knights
Rade by Fair Annet’s side,
And four and twenty fair ladies
As gin she had been a bride.
XXIII
And when she came to Mary’s Kirk,
She shimmer’d like the sun;
The belt that was about her waist
Was a’ wi’ pearls bedone[383].
XXIV
And when she came to Mary’s Kirk,
And sat down in the deas[384],
The cleiding[385] that Fair Annet had on
Enlighten’d a’ that place.
XXV
She sat her by the nut-brown bride,
And her e’en they were sae clear,
Lord Thomas he clean forgat the bride
When Fair Annet drew near.