When twae lang hours were come and gane,

The sweat drapped fast frae aff them baith,

But a drap of blude could not be seen.

Till Graeme gae Bewick an ackward[[B]] stroke,

Ane ackward stroke, strucken sickerlie;

He has hit him under the left breast,

And dead-wounded to the ground fell he.

"Rise up, rise up, now, hillie dear!

"Arise, and speak three words to me!—

"Whether thou'se gotten thy deadly wound,