In Askerton where that he lay—

"The deer, that ye hae hunted sae lang,

Is seen into the Waste this day."

"Then Hobbie Noble is that deer!

I wat he carries the style fu' hie;

Aft has he driven our bluidhounds back,

And set ourselves at little lee.

"Gar warn the bows of Hartlie-burn;

See they sharp their arrows on the wa':

Warn Willeva, and Speir Edom,