Was riding that way most hastily.
(jacky coat of mail. belive, soon.)
"O wha is yon, that came this way,
Sae hastily that hither came?
I think it be my brother dear,
I think it be young Christie Græme.
"Yere welcome here, my billy dear,
And thrice ye're welcome unto me! "—
"But I'm wae to say, I've seen the day,
When I am come to fight wi' thee.