‘What did you wi’ the bonny beads
I bade you keep against your needs?’—

LXV

‘I gae them to a ladye gay
I met i’ the grene-wood on a day.

LXVI

‘But I wad gie a’ my ha’s and tours,
I had that bright burd in my bours:

LXVII

‘But I wad gie my very life
I had that ladye to my wife!’

LXVIII

‘Now keep, my son, your ha’s and tours;
Ye have that bright burd in your bours.

LXIX