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2. There cam' a man at mid - day hour, He heard my song and
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* Sir VTalter Scott published this song as a " fragment obtained from recitation in the Forest of Ettriclt." He considered it
relating to the death of Cockburn, of Henderland, a noted robber, who was executed in 1529 by command of James V.
as probably