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6 He’s ask’d her father and mother,

The chief of a’ her kin’;

And then he ask’d the bonnie lass,

And did her favour win.

Doun came an English gentleman,

Doun from the English border;

He is for this bonnie lass,

To keep his house in order.

He ask’d her father and mother,

As I do hear them say;

But he never ask’d the lass herself,

Till on her wedding day.

But she has wrote a long letter,

And seal’d it with her hand:

And sent it to lord Lamington,

To let him understand.

The first line o’ the letter he read,

He was baith glad and fain,

But or he read the letter o’er,

He was baith pale and wan.

Then he has sent a messenger,

And out through all his land;

And four-and-twenty armed men,

Were all at his command.

But he has left his merry men all;

Left them on the lee;

And he’s awa’ to the wedding house,

To see what he could see.