It was than the king he gat up in hast,

An wow an angrie man was he!

‘I’se either be king o Ettrick forest,

Or king o Scotland sal he be.

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‘Gar warn me Fife an a’ Lothian land,

An Perth an Angus, to ride wi me,

For gin we war five thousan strang

Master and mair I fear he’ll be.’

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