‘O I am not going to hawke,’ he says,
‘As I have done before, O,
But for to meet your brother John,
Upon the braes of Yarrow.’
7.
7.1 ‘dowy,’ dreary.
7.3 ‘well-wight,’ brave, sturdy.
As he gaed down yon dowy den,
Sorrow went him before, O;
Nine well-wight men lay waiting him,