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Fause Foodrage, 1842. 'He has set his bent bow to his breast; And leaped the castell wa'; And soon he has seized on Fause Foodrage, Wha loud for help 'gan ca'. 'O haud your tongue, now, Fause Foodrage, Frae me ye shanna flee;' - Syne pierced him through the fause, fause heart, And set his mother free. And he has rewarded Wise William, Wi' the best half of his land; And sae has he the turtle dow, Wi' the truth o' his right hand'. Fause Foodrage is a Scottish murder ballad of the 17th or 18th century, first printed by Walter Scott in "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1802). Scott cited Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw as the ballad's probable author. From "The Book of British Ballads", edited by S. C. Hall, vol. II, p. 172, [London: Jeremiah How, 1842-44]