"And ponder well the read that I tell,

"Then make ye a choice of the three.

"'Tis I am Peter, and this is Paul,

"And that are, sae fair to see,

"But a twelve-month sinsyne to paradise came,

"To join with our companie."

"O I will hae the snaw-white boy,

"The bonniest of the three."

"And if I were thine, and in thy propine,[[A]]

"O what wad ye do to me?"