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 8 Then up and spake the eldest boy,

“Now listen thou fair ladie,

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 ane, sae fair to see,

But a twelve-month sinsyne to paradise came,

To join with our companie."

“0 I will ha'e the snaw-white boy,

The bonniest of the three."

" And if I were thine, and in thy propine,

O what wad ye do to me?”

“' Tis I wad clead thee in silk and gowd,

And nourice thee on my knee."

"O mither! mither! when I was thine,

Sic kindness I couldna see.

"Beneath the turf, where now I stand,

The fause nurse buried me;

The cruel penknife sticks still in my heart,

And I come not back to thee."