‘Oh hold your tongue, Lizzy Linsay,

Your weepin I mustna be wi;

I’ll sen you hame to your mither,

In the greatest o safety.’

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But he has tane her by the han,

And has shewn her the straight way to go:

‘An dont you see bonny Kincawsie,

Wher you and I is to ly?’

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