‘I came not here to hawk or hound,

Nor to drink the wine that’s so clear, O;

Nor I came not here to eat in my words,

For I’m still the rose o Yarrow.’

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Then they a’ begoud to fight,

I wad they focht richt sore, O,

Till a cowardly man came behind his back,

And pierced his body thorough.

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