‘Oh, wae be to your men, faither,

And an ill deth may they die!

For they cawit a’ the yowes out-owre the knowes,

And they left naebody wi me.

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‘There cam a tod unto the bucht,

The like I never saw,

An, afore that he took the ane that he took,

I wad leifar he had tane ither twa.

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