‘Sink on
(тони дальше),’ cried the cruel princess (воскликнула жестокая принцесса), ‘no hand or glove of mine you’ll touch (ни руки, ни перчатки моей ты не коснешься). Sweet William will be all mine (милый Уильям будет весь мой) when you are sunk (когда ты утонешь) beneath the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie (в прекрасном мельничном потоке Биннори;‘O sister, sister, reach me your hand!’ she cried, as she floated away, ‘and you shall have half of all I’ve got or shall get.’
‘No, sister, I’ll reach you no hand of mine, for I am the heir to all your land. Shame on me if I touch her hand that has come ’twixt me and my own heart’s love.’
‘O sister, O sister, then reach me your glove!’ she cried, as she floated further away, ‘and you shall have your William again.’
‘Sink on,’ cried the cruel princess, ‘no hand or glove of mine you’ll touch. Sweet William will be all mine when you are sunk beneath the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie.’ And she turned and went home to the king’s castle.
And the princess floated down the mill-stream
(а принцесса плыла вниз по мельничному потоку), sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking (иногда плывя, а иногда погружаясь), till she came near the mill (пока она не приблизилась к мельнице). Now, the miller’s daughter was cooking that day (дочь мельника в тот день готовила;