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 He took the lassie in his arms, and gae

her kisses three,

And four and twenty hunder mark to

pay the nurice fee.

He took a horn frae his side, and blew

baith loud and shrill,

And four and twenty belted knights

came skipping o‘er the hill.

And he took out his little knife, loot a‘

his duddies fa’,

And he stood the brawest gentleman

that was amang thein a’.

The beggar was a clever loon, and he

lap shouther height,

O ay for sicken quarters as I gat yester-

night, Fa la la, &c.

You‘ve surely heard o’ famous Neil,

The man wat play‘d the idle weel;

I wat he was a canty chiel,

And dearly lo‘sd the whisky, O.