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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

Note 187 — 163 THE BATTLE OF HARLAW

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A macaronic ascribed to Drummond of Hawthornden.

Interea ante alios dux piperlarius heros

Præcedens, magnamque gestans cum burdine pipam,

Incipit Harlai cunctis sonare Batellum.

(Poems, Maitland Club, p. 413, after the first

dated edition of 1684.)

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