A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

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*' And when thou had ta'en away my three ky.
Thou thought in thy heart thou wast not well sped.
Till thou sent thy billie Willie ower the know.
To take thrie coverlets aff my wife's bed !"
Then Johnie let a speir fa' laigh by his tliie.
Thought weil to hae slain the innocent;, I trow ;
But the powers above were mair than he.
For he ran but the pure fule's jerkin through.
T'ogether they ran, or ever they blan
This was Dickie the fule and he
Dickie could na win at him wi' the blade o' the sword^
But feird him wi' the plummet under the e'e.
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Thus Dickie has fell'd fair Johnie Armstrang,
The prettiest man in the south countrie
" Gramercy !" then can Dickie say,
'' I had but twa horse, thou hast made me thrie P*
He's ta'en the steil jack aff Johnie's back.
The twa-handed sword tliat hang low by his thie
He's ta'en the steil cap aff his head
" Johnie, I'll tell my master I met wi' thee.'*
When Johnie wakened out o' his dream,
I wat a drearie man was he
'' And is thou gane ? Now, Dickie, than
The shame and dule is left wi' me.
*' And is thou gane ? Now, Dickie, than
The deil gae in thy cumpaiiie
For if I should Hve these hundred years,
I ne'er shall fight wi' a fule after thee/'
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