Has trespassed on the Scots countrie."

"Where be ye gaun, ye marshal men?"

Quo' fause Sakelde; "come tell me true!"'

"We go to catch a rank reiver,

Has broken faith wi' the bauld Buccleuch."

"Where are ye gaun, ye mason lads,

Wi' a' your ladders, lang and hie?"

"We gang to herry a corbie's nest,

That wons not far frae Woodhouselee."

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