And after it they maun hae anither,

And thus the night they a’hae spent,

Just as they had been brither and brither.

C

Percy Papers. “The imperfect copy sent me from Keelder, as collected from the memory of an old person by Mr William Hadley, in 1775.”

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‘Now Liddisdale has ridden a rade,

But I wat they had a better staid at home;

For Michel of Windfield he is slain,

And my son Jonny, they have him tane.’