Shows valour to be poor!
“If Belted Will should harm a hair
O’ Jock o’ the Sheugh his head,
I’ll put the Border in such a blaze,
Shall make him flee with dread.
“If Jock o’ the Sheugh hangs for this play,
The whole of the March shall weep,
No man shall waken in the morn,
That goes alive to sleep.”
They brought these words to Belted Will