"Or if God and good leaching may succour thee?"

"O horse, O horse, now billie Graeme,

"And get thee far from hence with speed;

"And get thee out of this country,

"That none may know who has done the deed."

"O I have slain thee, billie Bewick,

"If this be true thou tellest to me;

"But I made a vow, ere I came frae hame,

"That aye the next man I wad be."

He has pitched his sword in a moodie-hill,[[C]]