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SCOTLAND be sad now and lament,

Thy child whom thou hast lost.

Bereft of Kinigs, falsely undone

By thine unkindly host.

2 Alas! the free is bound become,

and deceit is thy fail

The falseheod of the British race

Has brought those in thrall.

3 The grave of the most noble prince

to all is great regret,

Not subject to law, who doth leave

the Kingdom and estate.

4 O an anguish great ! where every kind

and age doth lament,

Whom bitter death has ta’en away,

shall Scotland sore repent,

5 Lately a land of rich increase,

a nation stout and true,

Has loft their former dear estate,

which they did hold in due.

6 By bard conflict, and by the chance,

of mobile Fortune’s force,

Thy hap, and thy prosperity,

is turned into worse,