We’ll conquess baith his lands and he.

14

‘Thou mayst vow I’ll cast his castell doun,

And mak a widow of his gay ladie;

I’ll hang his merrie men pair by pair

In ony frith where I may them see.’

15

James Boyd took his leave of the nobill king,

To Etrick forrest fair came he;

Down Birkendale brae when that he cam,