The swallow taill frae tackles flew,

Five hundreth flain[[156]] into a flight,

But we had pestelets enow,

And shot amang them as we might.

With help of God the game gaed right,

Frae time the foremost of them fell;

Then ower the know without goodnight,

They ran, with mony a shout and yell.

But after they had turned backs,

Yet Tindaill men they turned again;