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‘Come to your bed, Peggie, and let the kye rin,
For were I to gang out, I would never get in.’
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Then she’s cry’d on her women, they quickly came ben:
‘Take up your rocks, lassies, and fight a’ like men.
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‘Though I’m but a woman, to head you I’ll try,
Nor let these vile Highland-men steal a’ our kye.’
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