#B a# has a full story from this point on. The gypsy asks the lady to go with him, and swears that her lord shall never come near her. The lady changes her silk mantle for a plaid, and is ready to travel the world over with the gypsy, #B a# 5, #A# 3, #C# 4, #D# 3, #E# 4, #F# 4, (#B a# 6 is spurious). They wander high and low till they come to an old barn, and by this time she is weary. The lady begins to find out what she has undertaken: last night she lay with her lord in a well-made bed, now she must lie in an old barn, #B a# 7, 8, #A# 4, #C# 6, #D# 7, #F# 5 (reeky kill #E# 8, on a straw bed #H# 7, in the ash-corner #I# 6). The gypsy bids her hold her peace, her lord shall never come near her. They wander high and low till they come to a wan water, and by this time she is weary. Oft has she ridden that wan water with her lord; now she must set in her white feet and wade, #B a# 11, #C# 5, #D# 5, 6, #E# 7, (and carry the gipsie laddie, #B a# 11, badly; follow, #B b#). The lord comes home, is told that his lady is gone off with the gypsy, and immediately sets out to bring her back (so all). He finds her at the wan water, #B a# 14; in Abbey Dale, drinking wi Gipsey Davy, #C# 10; near Strabogie, drinking wi Gypsie Geordie, #F# 10;[41] by the riverside, #J a# 4; at the Misty Mount, #K# 5, 6. He asks her tenderly if she will go home, #B a# 15, #E# 15, #F# 12, he will shut her up so securely that no man shall come near, #B a# 15, #E# 15; he expostulates with her, more or less reproachfully, #C# 11, #F# 11, #G# 9, #H# 5, #J# 5. She will not go home; as she has brewed, so will she drink, #B a# 16, #G# 10; she cares not for houses or lands or babes (baby) #G# 10, #H# 6, #J# 6. But she swears to him that she is as free of the gypsies as when her mother bare her, #B a# 17, #E# 16. Fifteen gypsies are hanged, or lose their lives, #A# 10, #B# 18, #D# 14; sixteen, all sons of one mother, #C# 12, 13; seven, #F# 13, #G# 11, (cf. #I# 1).[42] #D# 8–11 is ridiculously perverted in the interest of morals: compare #B a# 17, #E# 16. ‘I swear that my hand shall never go near thee,’ #D# 8, is transferred to the husband in #I# 5: ‘A hand I’ll neer lay on you’ (in the way of correction). In #G# 4 the lady, in place of exchanging her silk mantle for a plaidie, pulls off her high-heeled shoes, of Spanish leather, and puts on Highland brogues. In #I# 7 gypsies take off her high-heeled shoes, and she puts on Lowland brogues. The high-heeled shoes, to be sure, are not adapted to following the Gypsy Laddie, but light may perhaps be derived from #C# 12, where the gypsies ‘drink her stockings and her shoon.’ In #K# these high-heeled shoes of Spanish leather are wrongly transferred to Lord Garrick in the copy as delivered, but have been restored to the lady.