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He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair o' shoon of the velvet green;

And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.

��380 Tarn Lin

i

I forbid you, maidens a', That wear gpwd on your hair, To come or gae by Carterhaugh, For young Tarn Lin is there.

ii 'For even about that knight's middle

O' siller bells are nine, And nae maid comes to Carterhaugh

in Fair Janet sat in her bonny bower,

Sewing her silken scam, And wish'd to be in Carterhaugh

Amang the leaves sae green.

IV

She 's lat her seam fa' to her feet,

The needle to her tae, And she 's awa' to Carterhaugh As fast as she could gae.

380 tae] toe.

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