Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) / Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

by Walter Scott

Sewed to a siller bell.

The first Scots kirk that they cam to,

They gar'd the bells be rung;

The next Scots kirk that they cam to,

They gar'd the mass be sung.

But when they cam to St Mary's kirk,

There stude spearmen, all on a raw;

And up and started Lord William,

The chieftane amang them a'.

"Set down, set down the bier," he said;