Thus over Spey all safely came,
That rapid river and stalward stream;
Th’ English women not us’d with wading,
Being loth to lift up their plaiding
Went in with petticoats and all,
Which fagg’d their feet and made them fall.
A trooper thinking lives to save,
With them too got a wat’ry grave,
The flood but to men’s middle went,
They were with fording unacquaint: