‘I wonder what the muckle Deel

He’ll learned kings to lie,

For to fetch me here frae amang my men

Even like a dog for to die;

But before I gang to Edinbro town

Monny toom saddles shall there be.’

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The king he has taen aff his cap;

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‘It [were] great offence here,’ he says,