"An' gar them trow slain men are we."

"O no, O no!" says Earlstoun,

"For that's the thing that mauna be;

"For I am sworn to Bothwell Hill,

"Where I maun either gae or die."

So Earlstoun rose in the morning,

An' mounted by the break o' day;

An' he has joined our Scottish lads,

As they were marching out the way.

"Now, farewell father, and farewell mother,