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.