That Weardale-men may never be overthrown.
For great troubles they’ve had in hand,
With borderers pricking hither and thither,
But the greatest fray that e’er they had,
Was with the men of Thirlwa’ ’nd Willie-haver.
They gather’d together so royally,
The stoutest men and the best in gear;
And he that rade not on a horse,
I wat he rade on a weil-fed mear.
So in the morning before they came out,