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Oh, I wadna be a yeoman, mither, to follow my father's trade, / To bow my back in miry banks, at pleugh and hoe and spade.
Stinting wife, and bairns, and kye, to fat some courtier lord, -- / Let them die o' rent wha like, mither, and I'll die by sword.