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 " Then out and spake her father dear,

" From the chamber where he lay, or

" What is it ails my pretty parrot

" That he speaks so long e'er day?

" There came & 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 set with one consent,

By dawning of the day,

Until they came to the Carleton sands,

And there his corps' it lay.

His body tall, by that great fall

Was dashed to and fro,

The golden ring that he had on

Was broke in pieces two.

And they hae taken up his corpse

To yonder pleasant green, Put

And there they buried fouse Sir John,

For fear he should be seen.