15
'Light down, light down, and hold my steed;
Change never your cheer till ye see me dead.
16
'If they come on me man by man,
I'll be very laith for to be taen.
17
'But if they come on me one and all,
The sooner you will see me fall.'
18
O he has killd them all but one,
And wha was that but auld Karl Hude.
19
And he has come on him behind,
And put in him the deadly wound.
20
O he has set his lady on,
And he's come whistling all along.
21
'Gude Earl Brand, I see blood:'
'It's but the shade o my scarlet robe.'
22
They cam till they cam to the water aflood;
He's lighted down and he's wushen aff the blood.
23
His mother walks the floor alone:
'O yonder does come my poor son.
24
'He is both murderd and undone,
And all for the sake o an English loon.'