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‘He says yon forest is his ain,

He wan it from the Soudronie;

Sae as he won it, sae will he keep it,

Contrair all kings in Christentie.’

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‘Gar ray my horse,’ said the nobil king,

‘To Etrick [forest] hie will I me;’

Then he gard graith five thousand men,

And sent them on for the forest frie.