‘.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

For we’ll a’ be in black, fra the hose to the hat,

Vou’s me for bonny Margrat Irvicen!

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‘We must to the North, to burry her corps,

Aless for our hear coming!

I rather I had lost a’ the lands of Aboyn

Or I had lost bonny Marg[ra]t Irvien!’