Stand fast, stand fast, my gude gray hunds,

And we will mak them dee.’

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He has killed six o the proud foresters,

And he has woundit the seventh sair;

He laid his leg out oure his steed,

Says, I will kill na mair.

F

Scott’s Minstrelsy, I, 59, 1802; made up from several different copies. Nithsdale.

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