Alexander Leighton & John Mackay Wilson 
Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There was a criminal in a cart Agoing to be hanged – Reprieve to him was granted; The crowd and cart did stand, To see if he would marry a wife, Or, otherwise, choose to die! ’Oh, why should I torment my life?’ The victim did reply; ’The bargain’s bad in every part – But a wife’s the worst! – drive on the cart.’