Wha ever heard, in ony tymes,
Sicken an outlaw in his degree
Sic favour get before a king
As did the Outlaw Murray of the forest frie?
B
Glenriddell’s MSS, XI, 61, 1791.
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Etterick Forest’s a pleasant land,
And it grows mony a bonny tree;
With buck and doe and a’ wild beast,