And when we cam to the lower prison,

Where Willie o' Kinmont he did lie—

"O sleep ye, wake ye, Kinmont Willie,

Upon the morn that thou's to die?"

"O I sleep saft, and I wake aft,

It's lang since sleeping was fley'd frae me;

Gie my service back to my wife and bairns,

And a' gude fellows that spier for me."

Then Red Rowan has hente him up,

The starkest man in Teviotdale—