"Nor yet will I yield to a briar;

But I would yield to Earl Douglas,

"Or Sir Hugh the Montgomery, if he were here."

As soon as he knew it was Montgomery,

He stuck his sword's point in the gronde;

And the Montgomery was a courteous knight,

And quickly took him by the honde.

This deed was done at Otterbourne,

About the breaking of the day;

Earl Douglas was buried at the braken bush,