Landsman again I neer sall be.’
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‘Now wae light o thee and thy lands baith, Jock,
And even so baith the land and thee!
For gear will come and gear will gang,
But three brothers again we never were to be.’
B
a. Glenriddell MSS, XI, 14, 1791, “an old West Border ballad.” b. Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1833, II, 116.
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As I was walking mine alane,