He’s muntit his ladie him high behind,

An thro the bonnie green wood thei’r gane.

10

They’d ridden a mile i that bonnie green wood,

They hadna ridden but only ane,

When there cam fifteen o the baldest knights

That ever boor flesh, bluid an bane.

11

Than up bespak the foremost knight,

He woor the gray hair on his chin;