Now soon they reach Newcastle jail,

And to the prisner thus they call:

‘Sleips thou, wakes thou, Jock o the Side?

Or is thou wearied o thy thrall?’

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Jock answers thus, wi dolefu tone:

Aft, aft I wake, I seldom sleip;

But wha’s this kens my name sae weel,

And thus to hear my waes do[es] seik?

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