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Then lightly rose the gude auld wife,

I wat the first up in a’ the town;

She took the grit oats intil her lap

And fodderd King Henry’s Wanton Brown.

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King Henry’s groom rase in the morn,

And he was of a sorry cheer:

‘King Henry’s Wanton Brown’s awa,

And sae is the silly auld harper’s mear!’