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He took the lassie in his arms, and gae her kisses three,
a silver coin worth 13 1/3d. Stg.
wet-nurse wageAnd four and twenty hunder merk to pay the nurice-fee.
  And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
   Sae late into the night,
  And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
  Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.

He took a horn frae his side, and blew baith loud and shrill,
And four and twenty belted knights came skipping o’er the hill.
  And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
   Sae late into the night,
  And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
  Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.

ragsAnd he took out his little knife, loot a’ his duddies fa’;
And he was the brawest gentleman that was amang them a’.
  And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
   Sae late into the night,
  And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
  Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.

The beggar was a cliver loon, and he lap shoulder height:
such“O, ay for sicken quarters as I gat yesternight!”