‘Strik, strik, ye proud boaster, your honour is gone,

Your lands we will plunder, your castell we’ll burn.’

33

At the head o the Etnach the battel began,

At Little Auchoilzie thei killd the first man.

34

First thei killd ane, and soon they killd twa,

Thei killd gallant Braikley, the flour o them a’.

35

Thei killd William Gordon, and James o the Knox,