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 Saying, Master you will please come down

to a lady who wants you to see.

A lady gay stands at your gates,

the like of her I ne’er did see!

She has more gold above her eye,

nor would buy a baron’s land to me.

Out then spake the bride’s mother,

I’m sure an angry woman was she,

You’re impudent and insolent,

for ye might excepted the bride and me. Ye lie, ye lie, ye pr ud woman,

I’m sure sae l ud as I you lie;

She has more gold on her body,

than would buy the lands, the bride and thee.

Go down, go down Porter, he says,

and tell the lady gay from me,

That I’m up-stairs wi' my lovely bride, and a sight of her I cannot see.

The P rter he goes down again,

the lady waited patiently;

My master’s with his lovely bride,

and he’ll not win down my dame to see.

From off her finger she's ta'en a ring,

give that your master, she says, from me,

And tell him now, young man, she says,

to send down a cup of wine to me

Here’s a ring for you, m

on her mid-finger she h