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Sir Roger produced his ploughs o land,
Sir Charles produced his thousand pounds,
Then back to Henry, the English king,
Restored the stately Wanton Brown.
A. a.
“I have here given another copy of this Border Ballad, which I took from a MS. collection of Mr Henderson. It varies a little from the former [A], which I had from Dr Clapperton of Lochmaben.”
44, 134, 184. The Wanton Brown is a mare: so b, and D, 94. But the Brown is a stallion in C, 34, 84, 134, and is so made to be in A c, 134, 173: rightly, I should suppose.
82. say.