For, Hobbie Noble, thow must be ane.
6
. . . . . . . .
. . thy cot is of the blue;
For ever since thou cam to Liddisdale
To Mengertown thou hast been true.
7
Now Hobbie hath mounted his frienged gray,
And the Laird’s Jack his lively bey,
And Watt with the ald horse behind,