That I pay meat and fee,

To search the forest far and wide,

And bring Etin to me?”

But out then spak the little wee boy,

“Na, na, this maunna be;

Without ye grant a free pardon,

I hope ye’ll nae him see.”

“O here I grant a free pardon,

Weel sealed by my own hand,

And see make search for Hynde Etin,