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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