They’ve fixed his sword within the sheath,

That out again it winna come.

15.

‘Awaken ye, waken ye, Parcy Reed,

Or by your enemies be taen;

For yonder are the five Crosiers

A-coming owre the Hingin-stane.’

16.

‘If they be five, and we be four,

Sae that ye stand alang wi’ me,