To see whom he could see or spye;

There was he aware of his mother dear,

Came tearing her hair most pittifully.

22

‘Pray have me remembred to Peggy, my wife;

As she and I walkt over the moor,

She was the cause of [the loss of] my life,

And with the old bishop she plaid the whore.

23

‘Here, Johnny Armstrong, take thou my sword,