Take thou the vanguard of the three.
29. Hogg’s verse is
But tell na ane of my brave men
That I lie bleeding wan,
But let the name of Douglas still
Be shouted in the van.
This is precisely what Douglas does say, in Froissart, but Scott deletes the stanza. Probably Hogg got the fact from his reciters, “in plain prose,” with a phrase or two in verse.
31. (H.) Line 4.
On yonder lily lee.
27. (S.)
That his merrie men might not see.
33. (H.) Scott deletes the stanza.
35. (H.)