This day ye’se dine wi’ me.”
But as they were at dinner set,
The boy asked a boon:
“I wis we were in the good kirk,
For to get Christendoun.
“We hae liv’d in gude greenwood
This seven years and ane;
But a’ this time, sin e’er I mind,
Were ne’er a church within.”
“Your asking’s nae sae great, my boy,