That grows upon yon lilley lea;

And if ye will not yeald to this,

In truth, Earl Percey, I’ll gar ye die.’

20

‘I will not yeald to a breckan-bush,

Nor yet will I yeald to a brier;

But fain wad I yeald to Earl Douglass,

Or Sir Heugh Montgomery, if he were here.’

21

O then this lord begun to faint,