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Had I the wyte, had I the wyte, / Had I the wyte? she bade me; / She watch'd me by the hie-gate side, / And up the loan she shaw'd me.
And when I wadna venture in, / A coward loon she ca'd me: / Had Kirk an' State been in the gate, / I'd lighted when she bade me.