‘An ay they are speakin o Gude Wallace,

An ay they are doomin him to hang:’

‘O forbid!’ quo Gude Wallace,

‘He’s owre truehearted a Scotsman.

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‘Had I but a penny in my pouch,

As I have not a single bawbee,

I would up into yon little alehouse,

An ay thae southron blades to see.’

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