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,