Up then spake the Queen o' Fairies,

Out o' a bush o' broom—

"She that has borrowed young Tamlane,

Has gotten a stately groom."

Up then spake the Queen of Fairies,

Out o' a bush of rye—

"She's ta'en awa the bonniest knight

In a' my cumpanie.

"But had I kenn'd, Tamlane," she says,

"A lady wad borrowed thee—