Lord, send us peace into the realm,

That every man may live on his own!

I trust to God, if it be his will,

That Weardale men may never be overthrown.

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For great troubles they’ve had in hand,

With borderers pricking hither and thither,

But the greatest fray that eer they had

Was with the ‘men’ of Thirlwa’nd Williehaver.

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