Men pressed on them full fast;
They drew their swords then anon,
And their bows from them cast.
They went lightly on their way,
With swords and bucklers round;
By that it was the middle of the day,
They had made many a wound.
stert, rushed. wrong, wrung. sure, trusty.
There was many an out-horn in Carlisle blowen,
And the bells backward did they ring;