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Enough to crack the welkin; but what got we by it?

Did he come in the storm? Did you not see him and hear him?

Certes did he; but what gat we by it? He keepit na' his tryste wi' us the second time; an' we gaed wearily hame on our feet, as wat and as puir as we came.

O that false tongue! ye rode upon clouds: I saw you pass over my head, and I called to you.

The woman is a fiend or bereft a' thegether! I walket hame on my feet, en' gaed to my miserable bed, just as at ony ither time, an' sa did she.

But rode ye not afterwards, my chucks? I saw you both pass over my head, and I called to you,

If we ware upon clouds, we ware sleeping a' the while, for I ken naething anent it. Do ye, neighbour? (To .)