(sickerly, surely.)

"O horse, O horse, now, billy Græme,

And get thee far from hence with speed;

And get thee out of this country,

That none may know who has done the deed."—

"O I have slain thee, billy Bewick,

If this be true thou tellest to me;

But I made a vow, ere I came frae hame,

That aye the next man I wad be."

He has pitch'd his sword in a moodie-hill,