‘Where have you been all day, father,

That no counsel you would take by me?’

11

‘Nay, I have been in Carlisle town,

Where Sir Robert Bewick there met me;

He said thou was bad, and calld thee a lad,

And a baffled man by thou I be.

12

‘He said thou was bad, and calld thee a lad,

And bully to his son cannot be;