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Then out it spake the young Earl Hume,
Dear! but he spake wondrous gaudie;
‘I’m wae to see sae fair a dame
Riding alang wi a Highland laddie.’
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‘Hold your tongue, ye young Earl Hume,
O dear! but ye do speak right gaudie;
There’s nae a lord in a’ the south
Dare eer compete wi a Highland laddie.’