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Up spack Hobby Noble and says,

O man, I think thou may lay some weight o the prisner upo me;

‘I wat weel no,’ says the Laird’s Jack,

‘For I do not count him as havy as ane poor flee.’

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So now they have set him upo horse back,

And says, O now so winsomly as thou dost ride,

Just like a bride, wee beth thy feet