The thieves was numberd a hundred men,
I wat they were not of the worst
That could be choosed out of Thirlwa’nd Williehaver,
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But all that was in Rookhope-head,
And all that was i Nuketon Cleugh,
Where Weardale men oertook the thieves,
And there they gave them fighting eneugh.
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