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 short time thereafter they came to a grove his flocks they were feeding in numberio s droves, n stood musing his flocks for to see, on, says the lady, that's no pleasure to me;

laddie in green tartan tvews, two bonnie lasses were bughting in ewes; said, honour’d master are you come again, , long have we look’d for you coming home.

ht in your ewes lasses and go your way home, brought a swan from the north, I have her to tame; feathers are fallen, and where can she lie? best bed in the house her bed shall be.

lady’s heart was far down, it couldna well rise, many a lad and lass came in with a fraise, welcome the lady, to welcome her home; a hall in the highlands she never thought on.

laddies did whistle, and the lasses did sing, made her a supper might have served a queen; ale aud whisky they drank her health round, they made to the lassie a braw bed of down.

next morning he led her to the hay, bid her lo klook [sic] round her as far as she could spy;