So wel he became his courtisie:
‘Well may ye be, my good Laird’s Jock!
But the deil bless all your companie.
19
‘I’m come to plain of your man Fair Johnie Armstrong,
And syne his billie Willie,’ quo he;
‘How they have been in my house this last night,
And they have tane my three ky frae me.’
20
Quo Johnie Armstrong, We’ll him hang;