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,