They should nae mair me see!’
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Murison MS., p. 33; from recitation at Old Deer, 1876.
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The streen the queen had four Maries,
This nicht she’ll hae but three;
There’s Mary Heaton, an Mary Beaton,
An Mary Michel, an me,
An I mysel was Mary Mild,
An flower oer a’the three.