But when they came to Cholerford,
There they met with an auld man;
Says, Honest man, will the water ride?
Tell us in haste, if that ye can.
28
‘I wat weel no,’ quo the good auld man;
‘Here I hae livd this threty yeirs and three,
And I neer yet saw the Tyne sae big,
Nor rinning ance sae like a sea.’
29 Then up and spake the Laird’s saft Wat,