The birds fly wild from tree to tree;

But there is neither bread nor kale,

To fend my men and me.

"Yet I will stay at Otterbourne,

Where you shall welcome be;

And if ye come not at three days end,

A fause lord I'll ca' thee."

"Thither will I come," proud Percy said,

"By the might of Our Lady!"

"There will I bide thee," said the Douglas,