[1191] billie = comrade.
[1192] tolbooth = gaol.
[1193] fie = fey, doomed.
[139. Hobbie Noble]
I
Foul fa’ the breast first treason bred in!
That Liddesdale may safely say,
For in it there was baith meat and drink,
And corn unto our geldings gay.
II
We were stout-hearted men and true,
As England it did often say;
But now we may turn our backs and fly,
Since brave Noble is seld[1194] away.