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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