With his eightscore men so gallant to see,

The king he moved his bonnet to him;

He thought he had been a king as well as he.

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‘O pardon, pardon, my soveraign leige,

Pardon for my eightscore men and me!

For my name it is John Armstrong,

And a subject of yours, my leige,’ said he.

12

‘Away with thee, thou false traitor!