For my name it is Johnie Armstrang,

And subject of your's, my liege," said he.

"Away, away, thou traitor strang!

Out o' my sight soon may'st thou be!

I grantit nevir a traitor's life,

And now I'll not begin wi' thee."

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"Grant me my life, my liege, my king!

"And a bonny gift I'll gie to thee—

"Full four and twenty milk-white steids,