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Hir gyte was gray, and full of spottis blak;
And on hir breist ane churl paintit ful evin,
Beirand ane bunch of thornis on his bak,
Quhilk for his thift micht clim na nar the hevin.
Thus quhen they gadderit war, thir goddis sevin,
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Mercurius they cheisit with ane assent
To be foir-speikar in the parliament.
Quha had ben thair, and lyking for to heir