So the knight and the eldest dochter were to be married , and the stranger damosel was distracted at the thought of it , for she was deeply in love wi ' him . So she bethought her of her apple , and breaking it , found it filled with gold and precious jewelry , the richest she had ever seen . `` All these , '' she said to the eldest dochter , `` I will give you , on condition that you put off your marriage for ae day , and allow me to go into his room alone at night . '' So the lady consented ; but meanwhile the auld wife had prepared a sleeping-drink , and given it to the knight , wha drank it , and never wakened till next morning . The lee-lang night ther damosel sabbed and sang : `` Seven lang years I served for thee , The glassy hill I clamb for thee , The bluidy shirt I wrang for thee ; And wilt thou no wauken and turn to me ? '' Next day she kentna what to do for grief . She then brak the pear , and found it filled wi ' jewelry far richer than the contents o ' the apple . Wi ' thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight 's chamber ; but the auld wife gied him anither sleeping-drink , and he again sleepit till morning . A ' night she kept sighing and singing as before : `` Seven lang years I served for thee , '' & c. Still he sleepit , and she nearly lost hope a ` thegither . But that day when he was out at the hunting , somebody asked him what noise and moaning was yon they heard all last night in his bedchamber . He said he heardna ony noise . But they assured him there was sae ; and he resolved to keep waking that night to try what he could hear . That being the third night , and the damosel being between hope and despair , she brak her plum , and it held far the richest jewelry of the three . She bargained as before ; and the auld wife , as before , took in the sleeping-drink to the young knight 's chamber ; but he telled her he couldna drink it that night without sweetening . And when she gaed awa ' for some honey to sweeten it wi ' , he poured out the drink , and sae made the auld wife think he had drunk it . They a ' went to bed again , and the damosel began , as before , singing : `` Seven lang years I served for thee , The glassy hill I clamb for thee , The bluidy shirt I wrang for thee ; And wilt thou no wauken and turn to me ? '' He heard , and turned to her . And she telled him a ' that had befa'en her , and he telled her a ' that had happened to him . And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned . And they were married , and he and she are living happy till this day , for aught I ken .
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