We have a regular ballad workshop in Glasgow and our usual intention is to explore a less familiar ballad, marry it to a given tune (with various twiddlings, if necessary) having identified the key elements of the story from a presented text.
But we also like to "tidy'" any infelicities of either scansion or rhyme to make attractive, singable versions.

SO, here is today's problem -- we were looking at Child ballad 77, Sweet William's Ghost in both versions A and C.
In both versions Lady Margaret/Marjorie/whatever is confronted by her lover (in corporeal form, though dead), but before he can ask for the return of his plight-troth, the Lady Marjorie of version C (from Motherwell) is looking for other lovers' tokens.

Looking for help now to adapt these two problematic verses from the C version.

'Have ye brought me any scarlets so red?
Or any silks so fine?
Or have ye brought me any precious things,
That merchants have for sale'?'

'I have not brought you any scarlets sae red,
No, no, nor the silks so fine;
But I have brought you my winding sheet,
O'er many's the rock and hill.'

Who can make balladic sense of this?