To be your poor fool and your leel,
Unless ye give me leave, my lord,
To go to Liddisdale and steal.’
13
‘To give thee leave, my fool,’ he says,
‘Thou speaks against mine honour and me;
Unless thou give me thy trouth and thy right hand
Thou’l steal frae nane but them that sta from thee.’
14
‘There is my trouth and my right hand;