Our lives and safeties all:
A woeful story late there did
In Britain’s Isle befall.
Duke Smithson, of Northumberland,
A vow to God did make,
The choicest gifts in fair England,
For him and his to take.
“Stand fast, my merry men,” he cried,
“By Moira’s Earl and me,
And we will gain place, wealth and pow’r,