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a. A copy, by Miss Mary Fraser Tytler, of a transcript made by her grandfather from William Tytler's manuscript. b. Jamieson-Brown MS., No 15, fol. 33.
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Willie has taen him oer the fame,
He's woo'd a wife and brought her hame.
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He's woo'd her for her yellow hair,
But his mother wrought her mickle care.
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And mickle dolour gard her dree,
For lighter she can never be.
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But in her bower she sits wi pain,
And Willie mourns oer her in vain.
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And to his mother he has gone,
That vile rank witch of vilest kind.
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He says: 'My ladie has a cup,
Wi gowd and silver set about.
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'This goodlie gift shall be your ain,
And let her be lighter o her young bairn.'