"O is my basnet a widow's curch?
Or my lance a wand of the willow-tree?
Or my arm a lady's lily hand,
That an English lord should lightly me!
(reiver, robber. yate, gate. lawing, reckoning. basnet, helmet. curch, kerchief.)
"And have they ta en him, Kinmont Willy,
Against the truce of Border tide,
And forgotten that the bauld Buccleuch
Is keeper there on the Scottish side?
"And have they e en ta en him, Kinmont Willy,