Then he put on a palmers weed,
And took a pike-staff in his hand;
To Violentrie's castle he hied;
But slowly, slowly he did gang.
When within the hall he came,
He jooked and couch'd out ower his tree:
"If ye be lady of this hall,
Some of your good bountith gie me."
"What news, what news, palmer," she said,
"And from what country came ye?"