Come tell me soon and shortly;’

‘Bad news, bad news, my lady,’ he said,

‘They’re going to hang your Geordie.’

12

‘Ye’ll saddle to me the grey, the grey,

The brown rade neer so smartly;

And I’ll awa to Edinbro town,

Borrow the life o Geordie.’

13

When she came near to Edinbro town,