2.3 ‘feed,’ feud.
Then Johnë Armstrang to Willie can say,
‘Billie, a rideing then will we;
England and us has been long at a feed;
Perhaps we may hitt of some bootie.’
3.
Then they’re com’d on to Hutton Hall,
They rade that proper place about;
But the laird he was the wiser man,
For he had left nae gear without.