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'I wonder wha 's tauld that gay ladie
The fashion into our countrie.'
32
'It is your little boy I blame,
Whom ye did send to bring her hame.'
33
Then to the lady she did go,
And said, 'O Lady, let me know
34
'Who has defiled your fair bodie:
Ye're the first that has beguiled me.'
35
'O we were sisters, sisters seven,
The fairest women under heaven.
36
'And we kiest kevels us amang,
Wha woud to the grenewood gang;
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'For to pu the finest flowers,
To put around our summer bowers.
38
'I was the youngest o them a';
The hardest fortune did me befa.
39
'Unto the grenewood I did gang,
And pu'd the nuts as they down hang.
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'I hadna stayd an hour but ane
Till I met wi a highlan groom.