‘Now, if it be my fortune thee, Grahame, to kill,

As God’s will’s, man, it all must be:

But if it be my fortune thee, Grahame, to kill,

’Tis home again I’ll never gae.’

37.

‘Thou art then of my mind, bully Bewick,

And sworn-brethren will we be;

If thou be a man, as I trow thou art,

Come over this ditch and fight with me.’

38.