O’er her left shoulder the lady look’d then:
‘O Earl Bran’, we both are ta’en!’—

XXII

‘If they come on me ane by ane,
Ye may stand by and see them slain.

XXIII

‘But if they come on me ane and all,
Ye may stand by and see me fall.’

XXIV

They have come on him ane by ane,
And fourteen men he has them slain.

XXV

But the fifteenth man behind stole round,
And he’s gi’en him a deadly wound.

XXVI