Auld Hebsrime and Northumberland.
Zit was our meeting meik enough,
Begun with mirriness and mows,
And at the brae abune the heugh
The clerk sat doun to call the rows,
And sum for ky and sum for ewis,
Callit in of Dandrie Hob and Jock,
I saw cum merching owre the knows,
Fyve hundred Fennicks in a flock.
With jack and speir, and bowis all bent,