I'll gar your body bleed.'
When the boy goes in and pronounces the fatal message before Lord Barnard:
Then up and spak the wily nurse,
The bairn upon her knee:
'If it be come frae Gil Morrice,
It's dear welcome to me.'
Compare this with the second verse of Sir Patrick Spence:
O up and spak an eldern knight,
Sat at the king's right knee, &c.
The messenger replies to the nurse: