item: #1 of 29
id: 11032
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 23
date: None
words: 78904
flesch: 71
summary: They've all passed into other hands.] Sometimes he felt confidence, and at other times despair; and of course he had the consolation, which belongs to all litigants, that the opposite party was undergoing the same process of oscillation.
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item: #2 of 29
id: 11334
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 22
date: None
words: 78292
flesch: 73
summary: Why, you see, gents, said S----th coolly, I don't mind a very great deal, you know, though I do take said sixpence from said bumpkin; but I won't do it, you know, on compulsion. As for mine, exercised on said bumpkin, let me alone for that part of the small affair; but none of your compulsion, if you love me.
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item: #3 of 29
id: 12742
author: Scott, Walter
title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1
date: None
words: 88231
flesch: 75
summary: Ye shall want, ere I want, that of Cranstoun, &c.] Satchells, who lived when the old border ideas of _meum_ and _tuum_ were still in some force, endeavours to draw a very nice distinction betwixt a freebooter and a thief; and thus sings he of the Armstrongs: On that border was the Armstrongs, able men; Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. Cry _Moubray_, said the expiring chieftain; _Rosslyne_ is gone!
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item: #4 of 29
id: 12882
author: Scott, Walter
title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition
date: None
words: 77070
flesch: 75
summary: The catastrophe of _Tamlane_ terminated more successfully than that of other attempts, which tradition still records. But Chaucer, and those poets who have adopted his phraseology, have only followed the romance writers; for the same substitution occurs in the romance of _Orfeo and Heurodis_, in which the story of Orpheus and Eurydice is transformed into a beautiful romantic tale of faëry, and the Gothic mythology engrafted on the fables of Greece.
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item: #5 of 29
id: 14416
author: Lang, John
title: Stories of the Border Marches
date: None
words: 90104
flesch: 74
summary: Old men amongst the fishers looked askance. Then came that terrible storm of 1794, a calamity that old men of our own day may yet remember to have heard talked about by eye-witnesses of the scenes they described.
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item: #6 of 29
id: 14421
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24
date: None
words: 58163
flesch: 96
summary: _s._ mass. --V-- _To_ VAIG, _v. n._ to wander; to roam. VALISES, _s. pl_ saddlebags.
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item: #7 of 29
id: 26962
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 17
date: None
words: 97705
flesch: 71
summary: Next day the Baron took her forth to the green woods, where, as they sauntered among elms many centuries old, and as high as castles, he told her that he had more reasons than other men for having a wife _who could keep a secret_. If any had, I would have told them they spoke untruly--that I had abjured the world, and all its joys, for ever; and that, henceforth, William Mowbray would not be as other men.
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item: #8 of 29
id: 29030
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 06
date: None
words: 94746
flesch: 74
summary: That object was merely to delineate some of the features in the character of a faithful Scottish clergyman, and to exhibit some of the lights and shadows which cheer or cloud his existence, like that of other men. His bonnet alone was like that of other men; for what could a true highlander substitute for the blue bonnet?
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item: #9 of 29
id: 30711
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 02
date: None
words: 93976
flesch: 70
summary: The visitor said, that were he in his place, seeing they were all well-educated young men, he would send them abroad; to which the father objected the indubitable fact, that many young men lost their health in foreign countries, and very many their lives. No, your honour, said Simon--that is, I am no more afraid to die than other men are, or ought to be--but only ye'll observe, sir, that I have no ambition--not, as I may say, to draw my last breath upon a wuddy, but to have it very unnaturally stopped.
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item: #10 of 29
id: 31593
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 03
date: None
words: 96631
flesch: 71
summary: Little, little does it matter, how a puir worn-out creature like me passes the few broken days o' life that remains to her; but ye are young, my Helen, an' the world is a' before you; an' ye maun just try an' live for it. William Beth, he said, ye hae tricked my boys out o' the bit property that suld hae come to them by their mother; it's no lang since they barely escaped being murdered by your son.
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item: #11 of 29
id: 31761
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 11
date: None
words: 97910
flesch: 70
summary: Weel, he was put on board o' an American trader, and for several years there was naething heard o' concerning him, but accidents that had happened him, and all through his glaikitness. I recollect o' hearing o' his permitting himsel to be suspended owre a precipice aboon a hundred feet high, wi' a rope fastened round his oxters, and three laddies like himsel hauding on by the ither end o't--and this was dune merely to harry the nest o' a waterwagtail.
keywords: andrew; boat; boxmaster; captain; case; daughter; day; days; deacon; death; dinna; door; eyes; face; fanny; far; father; fear; feelings; frae; friend; gang; good; hae; half; hand; harry; head; heart; home; hour; house; husband; jacob; jenny; jock; left; life; look; love; man; manner; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nae; nature; nelly; night; owre; place; poor; power; purpose; room; sandy; sea; sir; thought; time; todd; way; weel; wife; william; woman; words; world; years; yer; young
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item: #12 of 29
id: 32005
author: Borland, Robert
title: Border Raids and Reivers
date: None
words: 74530
flesch: 67
summary: The selling of horses, mares, nags, or geldings to Scottish men, without licence as aforesaid. Scrope tells us, for example, that on one occasion certain goods were stolen by Scottish men from one of the Johnstones, a kinsman of the laird Johnstone being warden, whereupon the fray arose, and the warden himself, with his company and friends, pursued the same.
keywords: account; armstrong; army; border; borderers; buccleuch; cary; castle; church; circumstances; clan; condition; country; day; days; death; district; doubt; douglas; earl; enemy; england; english; english border; fact; feeling; feud; following; friends; god; good; government; hand; history; horse; inhabitants; james; john; king; kinmont; laird; law; liddesdale; life; like; lord; man; march; means; men; night; occasion; office; opposite; papers; people; period; place; prisoner; punishment; queen; reivers; reiving; robert; said; scotland; scots; scottish; set; sir; state; thair; thieves; time; town; view; vol; warden; way; willie; years
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item: #13 of 29
id: 32862
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 01
date: None
words: 93279
flesch: 73
summary: Is this fair youth your son, old man? He is a gay sib freend, answered Thomas. Ye're not a faither, young man, said Peter, and walked out of the room.
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item: #14 of 29
id: 32956
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 09
date: None
words: 94101
flesch: 72
summary: The sounds of merriment by which the stranger had been attracted proceeded from a group of young men, who, standing in the form of a semicircle in front of the jolly landlord of the house--who, again, stood with his back to the fire, wielding a huge black bottle in his hand--were indulging in uproarious laughter at the witty sayings which he, the latter, seemed throwing amongst them like so many squibs and crackers. Fleming was not different from other men; and, though he might have been wrong in his construction of the secret moving impulse which called up the mantling adornment of beauty that was almost beyond the power of increase, he felt the full influence of the effect he thought he had produced, and, conceiving himself favourably received, laid in his heart the germs of an affection that was to govern his destiny.
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item: #15 of 29
id: 34144
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 04
date: None
words: 94421
flesch: 74
summary: A grey headed old man, of great apparent strength, who seemed by far the most formidable of the combatants, was engaged in desperate battle with two young fellows from the remote Highlands, while all the others were matched man to man. Her daughters would be the wives of great men, and she was their mother, and every one knows what an important personage a wife's mother is.
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item: #16 of 29
id: 34145
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 05
date: None
words: 95451
flesch: 72
summary: But I hae been a protector o' the poor and helpless, an' a defender o' the cowan-hearted, for a sma' but honest blackmail, that other men, wi' no half the strength o' Sandy Armstrong, wadna ta'en up at their foot. Some women and men--the former, as usual, predominant--were seated on logs beneath a shed; others, the more impatient seemingly, were walking about with umbrellas and parasols above their heads--young men with young misses--old men and babes.
keywords: andrew; archy; bed; bill; body; boy; captain; colonel; company; country; dark; day; days; deacon; death; door; duncan; edinburgh; evening; eyes; face; father; fellow; fire; foot; friend; good; hae; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; home; hour; house; husband; jack; james; kind; king; know; laird; left; life; look; man; manner; mary; master; means; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; pay; person; place; poor; round; sandy; saw; schulebred; set; sir; son; thought; time; way; wife; william; willie; woman; world; years; young
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item: #17 of 29
id: 34146
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 07
date: None
words: 95694
flesch: 73
summary: His bonny wife, ane o' the Blebos, wha fled wi' him, died o' a broken heart; and now, they say, the race is dune. They kent there was mony an ee on them, an' that their names would be spoken o' in the kintra-side lang after themsels were dead an' gane; but it sae happened that Fairburn's carline, wha had been his nurse, was ane o' the slampest women in a' the north o' Scotland, young or auld; an', though the ither did weel, she did sae meikle better, that she had got owre twenty lang Highland miles or the ither had got owre fifteen.
keywords: ane; auld; captain; case; country; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deep; door; drumwhussle; evening; eyes; face; father; feelings; feet; fiddler; frae; friend; gemmel; george; good; guid; hae; half; hand; harrison; having; head; heart; hope; hour; house; jeanie; john; judith; ken; kind; king; laird; law; lay; left; life; little; look; love; mair; man; manner; men; mind; moment; mother; nae; night; party; place; poor; round; sae; sir; skimclean; story; stranger; tell; thought; till; time; wad; water; way; weel; willie; woman; words; world; years
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item: #18 of 29
id: 34147
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 08
date: None
words: 95404
flesch: 74
summary: As soon as he had good time to shake his cargo into its place, he was summoned into the parlour. I left her with her relative; and, crossing the country, I got to Jedburgh in good time.
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item: #19 of 29
id: 34148
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 10
date: None
words: 97143
flesch: 70
summary: In the siege and capture of the town, her best and dearest interests were involved; for she would contemplate the success of great men fighting in a cause she loved, she would have the chance of meeting her lover, and she had the certainty of escaping the licentious Oliphant, who could not claim her, in the event of losing his treacherous cause in fighting against his country. the greatest geniuses sometimes fail in noble undertakings; and, not long after Mr Crabbin had begun to discover ailing symptoms on the part of his helpmate, the truth broke upon him that he was about to become a father; and a father, too, in good time, he became, of as healthy a child as ever blessed a living husband who liked his wife.
keywords: anne; arms; bruce; caleb; captain; castle; cause; children; city; country; crabbin; daughter; day; days; dear; death; door; eyes; face; fair; family; fashed; father; feelings; foot; fortune; friend; genius; george; ghent; good; hae; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; husband; james; king; lady; left; life; like; little; look; love; man; master; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; nature; nelly; new; night; person; peter; place; poor; present; round; scotland; set; sir; soul; stranger; thee; thought; time; town; water; way; wife; woman; words; world; years
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item: #20 of 29
id: 34149
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 12
date: None
words: 95881
flesch: 73
summary: She had always heard him spoken of as a steady, thriving, and deserving young man; and it became a settled point in her mind, that, if he directly popped the important question, she would be as candid with him, and at once answer, _Yes_. But her mother had made the first step, and she was not to be put back, and therefore she continued-- He is a lad that will rise in the world yet, and he weel deserves it; for a kinder, or more prudent, and obliging young man, I never saw--and I am glad, hinny, that ye hae the good sense to think weel o' him.
keywords: adam; alice; away; bed; body; campbell; captain; country; day; dead; dear; death; door; eyes; face; far; father; fear; feet; frae; friend; gentleman; geordie; glass; good; hae; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; husband; innes; left; life; long; look; love; man; maxwell; men; mike; mind; moment; mother; nae; night; person; place; poor; portmanteau; present; reuben; roderick; round; sandy; set; sir; son; spirit; thought; time; voice; wad; water; way; weel; wife; wind; woman; words; wotherspoon; years; young
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item: #21 of 29
id: 34150
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 13
date: None
words: 96270
flesch: 72
summary: And ye will, guid child, answered the nurse; but, should death deprive ye o' this refuge, we may think o' some ither means o' savin ye frae this forced match wi' this high Catholic knight o' Haughhead, wha persecuted the reformers as muckle as he does his lovers. But sairer, far sairer, hae ye wranged yersel; for, though we 'have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons and daughters o' men,' we have been answered in the dark nights in which we cried and wept, by Him who 'maintains the cause o' the afflicted, and the right o' the poor;' but ye are left to the wrath o' yer ain spirit, that burns in yer heart, and even now lights up your eyes wi' a strange licht.
keywords: andrew; auld; bertha; body; captain; child; christopher; cummin; daughter; day; dead; death; donaldson; door; eyes; face; family; father; feelings; frae; friend; george; goldie; good; guid; hae; half; hand; having; head; heart; house; jane; jenny; ken; kind; left; life; look; lordship; love; man; manner; margery; matilda; menie; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nae; night; owre; paul; person; peter; place; poor; richard; round; saw; sir; soldier; story; thornton; thought; till; time; uncle; voice; wallace; water; way; weel; wha; wife; woman; words; world; years; yer; young
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item: #22 of 29
id: 34151
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 14
date: None
words: 94738
flesch: 70
summary: Again many o' the Covenanters rushed to arms, and amongst them the sons o' Alice Cockburn. He found that the divine prerogative which surrounds kings is but a broken hedge, owre which every outlaw may trample, where the hearts and affections o' the people dinna form an outer bulwark around it.
keywords: alexander; army; brother; castle; child; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; douglas; edward; elizabeth; eyes; face; fair; fanny; father; friend; girl; glenday; good; hae; hand; head; heart; helen; hope; house; john; king; know; life; little; love; madeline; man; manner; marion; mary; men; moment; mother; nature; night; philip; place; poor; prince; raeburn; ramorgny; scotland; sir; sister; son; sword; thou; thought; thy; time; way; wife; william; woman; words; years; young
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item: #23 of 29
id: 34152
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 15
date: None
words: 95065
flesch: 69
summary: were the first articulate accents which crossed the lips of the distracted widow; look, ye sons o' Belial--ye men o' bluid--on the pale and lifeless victim o' yer horrid persecution. Say to't, your honour! said Allan.
keywords: augustus; aunt; away; bed; blood; curate; daughter; day; days; death; door; duke; eyes; face; father; feelings; fire; friend; good; graham; hae; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; helen; hour; house; james; john; king; lady; laird; left; life; look; lord; love; man; manner; mary; maxwell; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nae; night; people; place; poor; power; presence; purpose; sir; son; spirit; state; stranger; subject; tell; thing; thought; time; village; voice; way; weel; wellwood; wife; woman; words; world; years; young
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item: #24 of 29
id: 34153
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 16
date: None
words: 95497
flesch: 71
summary: Nor do we think the world, with the tendency to self-love that prevails in it, would have been the better for the want of these living, walking exemplars of their patron--the devil; for, of a surety, they show us the fallen creature in all his naked deformity, and make us hate the principle of evil through the ugly flesh-case in which it works, and the noisome overt acts it turns up in the repugnant nostrils of good men. In this description, he followed the account of the woman as well as his own experience; the fearful marks were set forth with great care; and no one doubted but that an individual, so strangely pointed out by nature, as differing from other men, would be instantly seized and brought before the throne.
keywords: act; apartment; cameron; captain; castle; cause; conduct; countess; country; daughter; day; days; death; door; earl; eyes; face; father; feelings; fell; george; god; good; grace; hae; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; james; john; king; life; like; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; nature; night; place; poor; power; prince; return; round; samuel; serjeant; set; sharp; ship; sir; son; stubbs; think; thought; thriven; time; voice; water; way; wife; william; woman; words; world; years; yer
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item: #25 of 29
id: 37217
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 20
date: None
words: 95919
flesch: 71
summary: This was ane o' the arts, wiles, guiles, and secret charms, to increase a languid affection, and bring it out o' the dead-thraw o' a starved love into the warm love o' a lively passion. I want naething frae ye o' ony consequence.
keywords: adam; ain; appearance; bill; board; carey; course; cubby; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deck; dinna; door; evening; eyes; face; fair; family; father; fire; frae; girl; good; guid; hae; half; hand; having; head; heart; house; hunter; john; ken; kind; king; land; left; life; look; love; mair; man; manner; margaret; men; mind; moment; monilaws; mother; mrs; nae; night; person; peter; place; poor; puir; round; sae; sea; sir; son; thought; time; tom; vessel; village; voice; wad; water; way; weel; wha; wife; william; willoughby; woman; words; years; yer; young
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item: #26 of 29
id: 37336
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 21
date: None
words: 76978
flesch: 73
summary: All this was elevating and comforting precisely in proportion to the belief by which it was supported; and it may fairly be questioned whether such men as Peden and Cameron would have maintained the struggle with so much nerve and resolution if the sun of their faith had not been surrounded by a halo--if the noonday of the gospel had not shaded away imperceptibly into the twilight of superstition. Few men, in fact, could empty more at a sitting.
keywords: appearance; bed; bell; christian; come; dark; day; death; doctor; door; doubt; eye; eyes; face; father; geordie; george; good; hae; half; hand; head; heart; home; honour; hope; hour; house; isobel; james; lady; left; life; little; look; love; man; marjory; men; mind; moment; mother; night; officer; ogilvy; person; place; robert; room; round; sir; spirit; thou; till; time; voice; way; white; wife; willie; woman; words; writer; years; young
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item: #27 of 29
id: 39759
author: None
title: Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 18
date: None
words: 96868
flesch: 72
summary: The factor was never in such play; the master greatly outdid himself; the laird played hind-hand in beautiful style; and Sutor John came up the rink like Jehu in time o' need. Would that my own life, and the lives of all my crew, could but purchase his safety! Take heart, old man, said Clelland, with dignity.
keywords: ane; auld; body; captain; cause; child; clelland; clydesdale; dark; daughter; david; day; days; death; deck; deep; door; effie; eyes; face; fair; father; feeling; frae; friend; good; hae; half; hand; head; heart; helen; henry; home; hour; house; husband; kind; kirsty; lady; laird; langridge; lay; left; life; look; love; man; manner; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; nae; night; object; place; poor; power; round; saunders; saw; scotland; sir; stone; stranger; tak; thought; time; way; weel; went; wife; willie; wish; woman; ye hae; years; yer
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item: #28 of 29
id: 45778
author: Scott, Walter
title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition
date: None
words: 76733
flesch: 82
summary: (Comes Patricius) _was the designation of the Earl of Dunbar, in the days of_ WALLACE _and_ BRUCE. All embraced his own persuasion, that he had been spirited away by witchcraft; nor could he himself be convinced of the contrary, until, many years afterwards, happening to travel in Annandale, his ears were saluted, once more, with the sounds of _Maudge_ and _
keywords: account; arms; ballad; battle; bear; bed; binnorie; black; blood; body; bonny; border; bring; brown; bruce; castle; country; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; die; door; earl; edinburgh; editor; england; english; eyes; fair; family; fast; father; feet; fell; fire; flodden; following; footnotes; forest; frae; gay; gin; good; gray; green; ground; hair; hamilton; hand; head; heart; high; history; house; james; john; keeldar; king; lady; lands; lay; life; little; lord; love; maid; mair; man; mary; men; merlin; mermaid; milldams; mother; nae; ne'er; night; notes; o'er; orthone; people; period; person; place; prophecies; prophecy; queen; quod; red; regent; rhymer; river; rose; sae; sall; sayd; scotland; sea; selkirk; set; sir; sister; son; song; soulis; sound; spirit; steed; stone; story; sweet; ta'en; tale; thee; thomas; thou; thy; time; tower; town; tradition; tree; true; war; water; way; wife; wild; william; wind; word; years; yon
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item: #29 of 29
id: 47800
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated
date: None
words: 121581
flesch: 69
summary: They are of lads in their teens, and of middle-aged men; but there are no skulls of old men, or of women. The present bridge of fifteen arches, the most beautiful surviving relic here of old days, was built under James VI and I.
keywords: abbey; account; ancient; arms; army; away; ballad; bank; battle; beautiful; bed; berwick; black; body; border; bridge; buccleuch; building; burn; camp; carlisle; case; castle; century; church; close; country; course; cross; date; day; days; dead; death; doubt; douglas; earl; edinburgh; edward; end; england; english; ettrick; fair; family; feet; find; fish; foot; french; good; green; ground; half; hand; head; heart; high; hill; home; horses; house; illustration; james; jedburgh; john; kelso; king; lady; law; lay; left; life; loch; lord; man; mary; men; miles; night; north; past; people; place; present; prince; prisoners; queen; remains; river; road; room; scene; scotland; scott; scottish; selkirk; sir; sir walter; spot; stone; story; stream; summer; teviot; thomas; till; time; tower; town; tradition; tree; trout; tweed; valley; village; walls; water; way; wild; william; woman; work; yarrow; years
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