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What want these outlaws conquerors should have?

Stanza xlviii. line 6.

"What wants that knave that a king should have?" was King James's question on meeting Johnny Armstrong and his followers in full accoutrements. See the Ballad.

[Johnie Armstrong, the laird of Gilnockie, on the occasion of an enforced surrender to James V. (1532), came before the king somewhat too richly accoutred, and was hanged for his effrontery—

"There hang nine targats at Johnie's hat,

And ilk ane worth three hundred pound—

‘What wants that knave a king suld have

But the sword of honour and the crown’?"

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1821, i. 127.]

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