‘Now, Jock, I wat,’ quo Hobie Noble,
‘Part o the weight ye may lay on me;’
‘I wat weel no,’ quo the Laird’s Jock,
‘I count him lighter than a flee.’
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Sae out at the gates they a’ are gane,
The prisner’s set on horseback hie;
And now wi speed they’ve tane the gate,
While ilk ane jokes fu wantonlie.
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