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

"And a brave gift I'll gie to thee—

"All between heir and Newcastle town

"Sall pay their yeirly rent to thee."

[122]

"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."

"Ye lied[[124]], ye lied, now king," he says.