mally's meek, mally's sweet

    chorus—mally's meek, mally's sweet,

    mally's modest and discreet;

    mally's rare, mally's fair,

    mally's every way complete.

    as i was walking up the street,

    a barefit maid i chanc'd to meet;

    but o the road was very hard

    for that fair maiden's tender feet.

    mally's meek, &c.

    it were mair meet that those fine feet

    were weel laced up in silken shoon;

    an' 'twere more fit that she should sit

    within yon chariot gilt aboon,

    mally's meek, &c.

    her yellow hair, beyond compare,

    comes trinklin down her swan-like neck,

    and her two eyes, like stars in skies,

    would keep a sinking ship frae wreck,

    mally's meek, &c.