Then out spake Lizie’s auld mither,
For a very auld lady was she;
‘If ye cast ony creed on my dochter,
High hanged I’ll cause you to be.’
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‘O keep hame your dochter, auld woman,
And latna her gang wi me;
I can cast nae mair creed on your dochter,
Nae mair than she can on me.’
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