And after that a can o beer;

Then they cried a’, wi ae consent,

Eat, brave Noble, and make good cheer!

31

Confess my lord’s horse, Hobie, they say,

And the morn in Carlisle thou’s no die;

‘How shall I confess them?’ Hobie says,

‘For I never saw them with mine eye.’

32

Then Hobie has sworn a fu great aith,