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Lambkin

LAMKIN—S

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Motherwell's Note-Book, fol. 13.

1

Lambkin was as brave a builder
as eer built a stane,
And he built Lord Cassillis house,
an for payment he gat nane.

2

My lord said to my lady,
when he went abroad,
Tak care of fause Lamkin,
for he sleeps in the wood.