"I'm lately come from Grecian plains,

Where lies some of the Scots army."

"If ye be come from Grecian plains,

Some mair news I will ask of thee,—

Of one of the chieftains that lies there,

If he has lately seen his gay lady."

(jooked, bowed. tree, staff.)

"It is twa months, and something mair,

Since we did part on yonder plain;

And now this knight has began to fear