Andrew Lang Highways and Byways in the Border
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"He who so loved her lies asleep,He hears no more her melody."
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MS. in British Museum, by Claude Nau, Secretary to Queen Mary, 1575-1587.
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Robertson's History of Scotland
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Robertson.
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The conjectural reading of Srhlopping, "Carved at the veal" though ingenious (for, as he observes, "the ancient Scots did not carve oat-meal") has no manuscript authority.
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Rabbits.
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This and the three preceding stanzas were among those that Sir Walter Scott most delighted to quote.
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Tassels.
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Makes ready to go.
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Enclosed wood, or place.
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Issue, or go forth.
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Dressed.
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Time: German stunde.
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Since this was written, the Crook has reopened its doorsas an inn. But they are not any longer content with the homely word "inn"; the place asserts itself now in large letters as the Crook "Hotel."
