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.