The Newark and the Newark lee.’

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“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 31, Abbotsford; in the handwriting of William Laidlaw.

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‘Gae fetch to me James Pringle wi hast,

An see that he come speedilie,

For he maun on to Ettrick forest,

An see whae pays yon men meat and fee.’

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