For faine hee cold noe more eate.
41
He sayes, Blest be thou, Hobby Noble,
That euer thou wast man borne!
Thou hast feitched vs home good Iohn oth Side,
That was now cleane ffrom vs gone.
B
a. Caw’s Poetical Museum, 1784, p. 145; “from an old manuscript copy.” b. Campbell’s Albyn’s Anthology, II, 28; “taken down from the recitation of Mr Thomas Shortreed,” of Jedburgh, “who learnt it from his father.”
1
‘Now Liddisdale has ridden a raid,