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.