Whoever wrote the lyric (it may have been Thomas Doubleday, but that isn't certain; see the other thread: link above) wasn't responsible for that line, which was introduced by somebody when the song was discovered by the Revival in the 1960s. The original (that is, first published, in 1821) had

For you shall set me to the stile, and kiss and take your leave.

(That's if I didn't mistype "set" for "see"; I shall have to check, if I can find the notes).