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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.