"Ye can baith speak and flee;

"Ye sall carry a letter to my love,

"Bring an answer back to me."

"But how sall I your true love find,

"Or how suld I her know?

"I bear a tongue ne'er wi' her spake,

"An eye that ne'er her saw."

"O weel sall ye my true love ken,

"Sae sune as ye her see;

"For, of a' the flowers of fair England,