Lady Ann has an adulterous connection with Earl Rothes, and her youthful brother seeks to sunder it. He offers to pay a tocher for her if she will forsake the earl's company; to keep her in his castle till she is safely brought to bed, and make her a marquis's lady; she rejects all his offers with scorn, The boy declares that when he is old enough to wear a sword he will thrust it through Earl Rothes for using his sister so badly.
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