‘Yestreen the queen [had] four Maries,

The night she’ll hae but three;

There was Mary Seaten, and Mary Beaten,

And Mary Carmichal, and me.

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‘I’ll not put on my robes of black,

Nor yet my robes of brown,

But I’ll put on a shining braw garb,

That will shine thro Edinbourgh town.’