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Rh She kindly did encourage me,

ſo I grew well again,

And of Jenny Bell

I grew wonderous fain.

I’ve cloth’d her like a Lady,

ſhe like a queen appears:

I’m younger like already

by more than twenty years;

She uſes me ſo kindly,

ſo well we do agree.

Nae mortals live more friendly

than Jenny Bell and me.

T Summer it was ſmiling,

and Nature it was gay,

When Jenny was attending.

on Auld Robin Gray;

For he was ſick at heart,

and had nae friend beſide,

But me poor Jenny

who newly was his bride.

Ah Jenny! ſhall I die he cry’d,

as ſure as I had birth:

Then ſee my poor auld banes,

pray, laid into the earth,