‘Now, brother, rede ye mee;

A, sall I marrie the nut-browne bride,

And let  fair Annet bee?’

The nut-browne bride has oxen, brother,

The nut-browne bride has kye*;

I wad hae ye marrie the nut-brown bride,

And cast fair Annet bye.”

—Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, a Scottish ballad published in 1765, The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World, edited by Albert B. Friedman, 1956. *Kye = cows, cattle.