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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