And a' by the light o' the moon,
Until they cam to yon wan water,
And there they lighted down.
See further in Young Huntin:
And they hae ridden along, along,
All the long summer's tide,
Until they came to the wan water,
The deepest place in Clyde.
The circumstance is very suspicious, for we find this phrase in no other ballads.
In Clerk Saunders, the hero is slain in his mistress's bower, by the rage of one of her seven brothers, whose act is described in precisely the same terms as the slaughter of Gil Morrice by the bold baron: