Anne Barnard

“ At last I grew so ill that some thought I wou’d die,
⁠Then my bonny Jenny Bell came to visit me.
As soon as I beheld her this charming beauty bright,
I said, if she wou'd marry me, I hoped yet to live,
She kindly did encourage me, so I grew well again,
⁠So of my bonny Jenny Bell I grew wondrous sain.
I've cloth'd her like a lady, she like a queen appears,
I'm younger like already by more than twenty years,
She uses me so kindly, so well we do agree,
⁠No mortal lives more friendly than Jenny Bell and me. ”

“ I saw my Jamie's warth, but I didna' think it he,
⁠Till he said I'm come back for to marry thee.
O fair did we greet, and muckle did we say,
We took but ae kiss, and we tore ourselves away,
I wish I were dead, but I'm no like to die,
⁠And why did I live, to say waes me.
I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin,
I darena think on Jamie for that wou’d be a sin,
But I’ll do my best, a guid wife to be,
⁠For auld Robin Grey is kind to me. ”