He’s ridden into Yarrow,

And there he espied all the nine,

Watering their steeds in Yarrow.

6

‘Ye’r welcome, welcome, young man,’ they said,

‘But I think ye are not our marrow;’

‘But I’ll fight ye all out, one by one,

In the dowie dens o Yarrow.’

7

Four he has wounded, five he has slain,