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 And now up spake Sir Robert Bewick

O man, was I not much to blame,

I have lost one of the liveliest lads

That ever was bred unto my name.

With that up spake my good Laird Graham,

O man, I've lost the better block,

I've lost my comfort and my joy,

I've lost my key, I've lost my lock.

Had I gone through all Lauderdale,

And forty horse had set on me,

Had Christy Graham been at my back,

So well he would have guarded me.

I have no more of my song to sing,

But two or three words I will name

It will bobe [sic] talk'd in CarlisloCarlisle [sic] town,

That these two men were all the blame.