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You parents grave who children have,
In crushing them be canny,
Lest for their part they break their heart,
As did young Tifty’s Nanny.
C
a. Buchan’s Gleanings, p. 98; taken down “from the memory of a very old woman” (p. 197). b. Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 239; a stall copy collated with a recited copy.
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At Mill of Tifty lived a man,