When first we meet on the Border side."
Then shoulder high, with shout and cry,
We bore him down the ladder lang:
At every stride Red Rowan made,
I wot the Kinmont's airns play'd clang.
"O mony a time," quo' Kinmont Willy,
"I have ridden horse baith wild and wood;
But a rougher beast than Red Rowan
I ween my legs have ne'er bestrode.
(hente, caught. fley'd, frightened. starkest, strongest. airns, irons.)