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This deed was done at Otterburn,

About the breaking of the day;

Earl Douglass was buried at the braken-bush,

And Percy led captive away.

C

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1833, I, 345. B completed by two copies “obtained from the recitation of old persons residing at the head of Ettrick Forest.”

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It fell about the Lammas tide,

When the muir-men win their hay,