"O haud thy tongue, my wife," he says,

"And o' thy crying let me be!

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"O had thy tongue, my wife," he says,

"And o' thy crying let me be;

And ay where thou hast lost ae cow,

In gude suith I shall bring thee three."

Now Dickie's gane to the gude Lord Scroope,

And I wat a dreirie fule was he;

"Now hand thy tongue, my fule," he says,