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Queen's Marie

MARY HAMILTON—Q

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Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, ed. Allardyce, 1888, II, 272, in a letter from Sharpe to W. Scott [1823].

1

The Duke of York was my father,
My mother a lady free,
Myself a dainty damosell,
Queen Marie sent for me.

2

The queen's meat it was sae sweet,
Her cleiding was sae rare,
It gart me grien for sweet Willie,
And I'll rue it evermair.