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Maid Marian.

CHAP. XIII.

What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie,What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man?Burns.

"Here is but five shillings and a ring," said Little John, "and the young man has spoken true."

"Then," said Robin to the stranger, "if want of money be the cause of your melancholy, speak. Little John is my treasurer, and he shall disburse to you."

"It is, and it is not," said the stranger: "it is, because, had I not wanted money I had never lost my love: it is not, because now that I have lost her, money would come too late to regain her."

"In what way have you lost her?" said

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