8

‘Away, away, thou traytor, strang!

Out of my sicht thou mayst sune be!

I grantit nevir a traytors lyfe,

And now I’ll not begin with thee.’

9

‘Grant me my lyfe, my liege, my king,

And a bony gift I will give to thee;

Full four-and-twenty milk-whyt steids,

Were a’ foald in a yeir to me.