"And may repent the same,

"If that you'll get a Christian man

"To fight that Rodingham."

"Alas! alas!" then cried our queen,

"Alas, and woe to me!

"There's not a man in all Scotland

"Will fight with him for me."

She breathed unto her messengers,

Sent them south, east, and west;

They could find none to fight with him,