‘O were there war between the lands,
As well I wot that there is nane,
I would slight Carlisle castell high,
Though it were builded of marble stane.
XIV
‘I would set that castell in a low[1171],
And sloken it with English blood!
There’s never a man in Cumberland
Should ken where Carlisle castell stood.
XV
‘But since nae war’s between the lands,
And there is peace, and peace should be;
I’ll neither harm English lad or lass,
And yet the Kinmont freed shall be!’
XVI
He has call’d him forty Marchmen bauld,
I trow they were of his ain name,
Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, call’d
The Laird of Stobs, I mean the same.
XVII
He has call’d him forty Marchmen bauld,
Were kinsmen to the bauld Buccleuch;
With spur on heel, and splent[1172] on spauld[1173],
And gleuves of green, and feathers blue.