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Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang
page 44 of 162 (27%)

He stabb'd him thro and thro the hear
He maul'd him cruelly
Then hung him ower the drawbridge
Beside the other three

Now take from me that feather bed
Make me a bed o' strae
I wish I neer had seen this day
To mak my heart fu' wae

If I were once at London Tower,
Where I was wont to be
I never mair should gang frae hame,
Till borne on a bier-tree


At the end of his copy Hogg writes (probably of stanza vii.)--"You may
insert the two following lines anywhere you think it needs them, or
substitute two better -


And marching south with curst Dunbar
A ready welcome found."


II--WHAT IS AULD MAITLAND?


Is Auld Maitland a sheer forgery by Hogg, or is it in any sense, and if
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