For Michal of Windfield he is slain, and my son Jonny they have him tain.’
4
Up speaks Lord Mengertown and says, I have four and twenty yoke of oxen,
And four and twenty good milk-ky,
And three times as mony sheep,
And I’ll gie them a’before my son Jonny die.
5
I will tak three men unto myself;
The Laird’s Jack he shall be ane,
The Laird’s Wat another,