Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

214 MINSTRELSY OF
" A Scottish King shall come full keen ;
" The ruddy lion bcareth he :
" A feather''d arrow sharp, I ween,
" Shall make him wink and warre to sec.
" When he is bloody, and all to bledde,
" Thus to his men he still shall say
' For God's sake, turn ye back again,
' And give yon southern folk a fray !
' Why should I lose the right is mine ?
' My doom is not to die this day.'*
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Yet turn ye to the eastern hand,
" And woe and wonder ye sail see ; .
How forty thousand spearmen stand,
" Where von rank river meets the sea.
" There shall the lion lose the gylte,
" And the hbbards bear it clean away
" At Pinkyn Cleuch there shalt be spilt
" Much gentil bluid that day."
* The uncertainty which long prevailed in Scotland, concerning
the late of James IV., is well knowr.