12^4. What wad make me sorry?
14^1. yonder gates.
14^2. playd pretty.
14^3. four-and-twenty noble knichts.
14^4. welcome in Ritchie Torry’s lady.
16^{3,4}. Now she rides in her coach-and-six, She blesses the day
she got Ritchie Torry.
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_18 stanzas. Much manipulated, and not entitled to confidence._
1.
As I came in yon bonny burn-side,
And down below the bloom sae bonny,
There _I_ espied a handsome lad,
Wi ribbons on his shoulders mony.
(_Cf._ A 2.)
2^{3,4}. Here’s a letter frae the Earl o Wemyss, That he’s in suit
o thee, madam.
11.
Out it speaks her mother then;
O daughter, may not you be sorry
To gang alang wi a servant-man,
And lose the rights o Castle Norry?
12^{3,4}. I’m sure I’ve chosen a bonny lad, The lot has just been
laid afore me.
14.
When they gaed through the Parliament Closs,
The silver loops hang down sae bonny;
Then four-and-twenty noble lords
Came hat in hand to Richard Storry.