But if they be reavers, we’ll gar them be taen.’

3

‘It is na gentlemen, nor yet pretty lads,

But a curn hir’d widdifus, wears belted plaids.’

4

She called on her women and bade them come in:

‘Tack a’ yer rocks, lasses, and we’ll them coman.

5

‘We’ll fecht them, we’ll slight them, we’ll do what we can,

And I vow we will shoot them altho we shod bang.