‘Come down, come down, Mary Hamilton,
This day thou wilt dine with me.’
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‘Hold your tongue, my sovereign leige,
And let your folly be;
An ye had a mind to save my life,
Ye should na shamed me here.’
C
Motherwell’s MS. p. 265; from Mrs Crum, Dumbarton, 7 April, 1825.
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