And whae will dare this deed avow?
Or answer by the Border law?
Or answer to the bauld Buccleuch!’
6.
6.1 ‘haud,’ hold: ‘reiver,’ robber.
‘Now haud thy tongue, thou rank reiver!
There’s never a Scot shall set ye free;
Before ye cross my castle-yate,
I trow ye shall take farewell o’ me.’
7.