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Syne they came on to a garden green,
And she pu’d an apple frae a tree:
‘Take this for thy wages, True Thomas,
It will give the tongue that can never lie.’

— Thomas the Rhymer Attributed

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Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802), vol. 2, pp. 251–56

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