And quak’d and burn’d to fight.

Then mighty Douglas leap’d between

To redd the foul debate,

“O Sirs!” he cries, “thrust in your glaives

And quell this rising state.

“For, look you! where the English lies

On yonder tented field,

To morrow’s morn, if right I ween,

We’ll need both sword and sheild.

“Gin we to Scotland mean to go,