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 " Then out and spake her father dear,

" From the chamber where he lay,

" What is it ails my pretty parrot

" That he speaks so long e'er day?

" There came a cat into my cage

" Had nearly worried me,

" And I was calling on May Culzean

" To come and set me free."

And first she told her father dear,

Of the deed that she had done,

And likewise to her mother dear,

Concerning fause Sir John.

So aff they sent with one consent,

By dawning of the day,

Until they came to the Carleton sands;

And there his corpse it lay.

His body tall; by that great fall

Was dashed too and fro,

The golden ring that he had on,

Was broke in pieces twa.

And they hae taken up his corpse

To yonder pleasant green,

And there they buried fause Sir John,

For fear he should be seen.