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My gold is gone, my money is spent,

My land now take it unto thee.

Give me thy gold, good John o' the Scales,

And thine for aye my land shall be.

Then John he did him to record draw.

And John he caste him a gods-pennie;

But for every pounde that John agreed,

The land, I wis, was well worth three.

HEIR OF LINNE.

The Galweg