16^1, 17^1. Up then.
16^3. For from this hour receive this dower.
16^4. Ye sal be.
17^{3,4}. For ere the sun gae down this night, O there’s my hand,
I’ll marry thee.
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1^1. It fell upon a certain day.
1^2. from home he chanced to be.
1^3. The king’s jewels they were stolen all.
1^4. And they.
2^1. And he is into prison cast.
2^2. And I wat he is.
2^3. For there was not a man.
2^4. speak a.
3.
But the king’s eldest daughter she loved him well,
But known her love it might not be;
And she has stolen the prison-keys,
And gane in and discoursed wi James Hatelie.
4^1. Oh, did you steal them, James.
4^2. Oh, did not you steal them? come tell to me.
4^3. For I’ll.
4^4. You’s.
5^1. I did not steal them, James.
5^2. And neither was it.
5^3. For the English they stole them themselves.
5^4. And I wat they’ve.
6^{1,2}.
Now she has hame to her father gane,
And bowed her low down on her knee;
‘I ask, I ask, I ask, father,’ she said,
‘I ask, I ask a boon of thee.’
6^3. For _wanting_.
6^4. And one of them you must grant to me.
7^{1,2}. Ask on, ask on, daughter, he said, And aye weel answered
ye shall be.
7^3. For if it were my whole.
7^4. you shall.
8^1. I ask.
8^2. As little of your white monie.
8^3. But all the asken that I do ask.
9^1. Ask on, ask on, daughter, he said.
9^2. And aye weel answered ye.
9^3. and keep.
9^4. shall not.
10^1. asken I ask, father: dear _wanting_.
10^2. asken I ask of thee. 10^3. go to.
11^{1,2}. Ask on, ask on, daughter, he said, And aye weel answered
you shall be.
11^3. For before the morn at.
12^1. eighteen years of age.
12^2. False F. was thirty years and three.
12^3. He lap: strack.
12^4. And he gave false F.
13^1. Oh, hold your hand, J. H., he said.
_Between 13^2 and 13^3_:
‘Were it not for the spilling of my noble blood,
And the shaming of my noble kin.
‘Oh, hold your hand, James Hatelie,’ he said,
‘Oh, hold your hand, and let me be.’
13^3. For I’m the man that stole the jewels.
13^4. And a: it was. 14^1. Then up bespoke.
14^2. I wat but he.
14^3. rather have lost all my lands.
14^4. they had.
15^1. Then up bespoke a good Scotch.
15^2. I wat a good Scotch lord was he.
15^3. to the knees in blood.
15^4. Than they.