And there is thirty Armstrongs and three!’
18.
Yet he’s com’d up to the hall among them all;
So wel he became his courtisie;
‘Well may ye be, my good Laird’s Jock,
But the deil bless all your companie!
19.
‘I’m come to plain of your man Fair Johnie Armstrong,
And syne his billie Willie,’ quo’ he;
‘How they have been in my house this last night,