Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

THE BONNIE HOUSE OF AIRLY.
O gley'd Argyll has written to Montrose,
To see gin the fields they war fairly;
And to see whether he shou'd stay at hame,
Or come to plunder bonnie Airly.
The great Montrose has written to Argyll,
And that the fields they were fairly,
And no to keep his men at hame,
But come and plunder bonnie Airly.
The lady was looking oure the castle wa',
She was carrying her courage sae rarely,
And there she spied him, gley'd Argyll,
Coming for to plunder bonnie Airly.