For I will stand by and bleed but awhile,
And then will I come and fight againe.’
17.
Newes then was brought to young Jonnë Armestrong
As he stood by his nurse’s knee,
Who vowed if ere he live’d for to be a man,
O’ the treacherous Scots reveng’d hee’d be.
THE BRAES OF YARROW
The Text was communicated to Percy by Dr. Robertson of Edinburgh, but it did not appear in the Reliques.