...hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady 's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. ' Ye'll sit on his white...We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. ' Mony a ane for him makes mane, But nane sall ken where he is gane ; O'er his white banes, when they are bare,...

...hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. "Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonnie blue een. Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek 2 our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a...

...is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, 10 His lady's ta'en anither mate, So we may mak' our dinner sweet. 'Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pike out his bonny blue e'en: Wi'a ae lock o' his gowden hair 15 We'll theek our nest when it grows...

...make our dinner sweet. 'Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pike out his bonny blue e'en: VVi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.' 'The Twit Corbies' (corbies ravens; tail lurf; hanse neek; theek thatch) 6 The wind doth blow to-day,...

...ta'en another mate, So we may make our dinner sweet. Ye' 11 sit on his white hause bane. And I'll pike out his bonny blue een: Wi' ae lock o' his gowden...it grows bare. Mony a one for him makes mane, But none sail ken whare he is gane: O'er his white banes, when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair....

...hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's t'en anither mate, [taken another] So we may mak' our dinner sweet. 'Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, [neck-bone] And I'll pike out his bonny blue e'en Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek our nest...

...犬已去狩獵， 爪已去技禽， 妻已另杜良伴， 我倆自可大快朵頤。 」 "Ye，II sit on his white hause-bane, And I，ll pick out his...gowden hair We，ll theek our nest when it grows bare 「 你可蹲在他牡白城骨 我則咚出他美屁芷眼睛 再撕下他一絡金女秀髮 去補綴我倆破巢。...

...Stanley 1890s. Note: 'that' is commoner as relative pronoun than 'which' thee see thoo theek to thatch "wi" ae lock o' his gowden hair / we'll theek our nest when it grows bare" Reed Border Ballads C16; "Wor canny houses dullit theek'd— Wor canny wives within 'em—" (thatched...

...ta'en another mate, "So we may mak our dinner sweet. "Ye'll sit on his white hause bane, "And I'll pike out his bonny blue een: "Wi" ae lock o' his gowden...when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, 52 Fail - Turf. "But nane sail ken whare he is gane: "O'er his white banes, when they are bare, "The...