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‘The Queen’s Marys,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 144, Abbotsford.

1

‘Yestreen the queen had four Marys,

The night she’ll hae but three;

She had Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton,

And Mary Carmichael, and me.

2

‘My feather was the Duke of York,

My mother a gay lady,