6 He never minded what she said, but carried on his stroke, Till he got his job done, then he began to joke. 7 ‘Have you got any dogs about the house, or any cats ava? For I’m feared she’ll cut my mealpocks before I gang awa.’ 8 The lassie took up the mealpocks, threw them against the wa, ‘O deil tak your mealpocks! my maidenhead’s awa.’ 9 The lassie she got up again the hour before ’twas day, For to gie the beggar hansel before he went away. 10 She went into the cellar, to draw a pot of ale, The beggar followed after, and did the job again. 11 He laid her on the ringle-tree, and gave her kisses three, And he gave her twenty guineas, to pay the nurse’s fee. 12 ‘Had you been an honest lass, as I took you to be, You might have rode in your carriage and gone along with me.’ 13 The beggar he took a horn and blew it wondrous shrill; There was four-and-twenty belted knights came riding oer the hill. 14 ‘Now if you are afraid you should miscall your child, You may call him for the daddy o’t, the great Duke of Argyle.’ 1^1, jelly: _but_ 3^2, 4^2, jolly. 3^1. hay and straw. 9^1. hours. 13^2. kinpa _for_ knights. _There are many other misprints; some, perhaps, which are not corrected, as_ she’ll cut, 7^2. _The copy in Motherwell’s MS, p. 124, ends_: He louted oure the saddle to her and gave her kisses three, And he gave her fifty guineas, to pay the nourice-fee. ‘Oh had you been an honest maid, as I thocht ye wud hae been, I would have made you lady of a’ the land, and then the Scotish queen.’ =B. c.= From the recitation of Miss Jane Webster, Crossmichael, August 8, 1893; learned by her many years ago from her mother, Janet Spark. 1 There was a jolly beggar, as mony a ane has been, An he’s taen up his lodging in a house near Aberdeen. Wi his yi yi yanti O, his eerie eerie an Wi his fine tan taraira, the jolly beggar-man 2 He wadna lie in barn, nor he wadna lie in byre, But he wad lie at the ha-door or the back o the kitchen-fire. =B. d.= From the recitation of the same, on the same occasion; learned in youth at Airds of Kells, from the singing of Thomas Duffy, joiner, Parton. _Refrain_: Wi his long staff, and ragged coat, and breeches to his knee, And he was the bauldest beggar-man that eer my eyes did see. =a.= 4 Up rose the farmer’s daughter, for to bar the door, There she beheld a naked man, was standing on the floor. * * * * * 7 ‘Hae ye ony cats or dogs, or hae ye eer a grew? I’m feared they rive my meal-pokes, when I am kissing you.’ 9 She’s taen up his meal-pokes an thrown them owre the wa: ‘O the deil gang wi your meal-pokes! for my maidenhead’s awa.’ * * * * *