Withouten either dread or fear?

And forgotten that the bauld Buccleuch

Can back a steed, or shake a spear?

"O were there war between the lands,

As well I wot that there is none,

I would slight Carlisle castell high,

Tho' it were builded of marble stone.

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"I would set that castell in a low,[[166]]

And sloken it with English blood!