e
To maintain thy wife and thy children three.'

58.
'The shame speed the liars, my lord!' quo' Dicke,
'Trow ye ay to make a fool of me?' quo' he;
'I'le either have thirty pound for the good horse.
Or else he's to Mattan Fair with me.'

59.
He has given him thirty pound for the good horse,
All in gold and good monie;
He has given him one of his best milk-kye
To maintain his wife and children three.

60.
Then Dickie lap a loup on high,
And I wat a loud laughter leugh he;
'I wish the neck of the third horse were browken,
For I have a better of my own, and onie better can be.'

61.
Then Dickie com'd hame to his wife again.
Judge ye how the poor fool he sped!
He has given her three score of English pounds
For the three auld co'erlets was tane off her bed.

62.
'Hae, take thee there twa as good kye,
I trow, as all thy three might be;
And yet here is a white-footed naigg,
I think he'le carry both thee and me.

63.
'But I may no langer in Cumberland dwell;
The Armstrongs they'le hang me high.'
But Dickie has tane leave at lord and master,
And Burgh under Stanemuir there dwels Dickie.

[Annotations:
1.3: 'lidder,' lazy.
2.2: 'billie,' brother.
2.3: 'feed,' feud.
5.2: 'know,' hillock.
20.5: 'burden of batts,' all the blows he can bear.
22.2: 'dought,' was able.
25.1: 'aevery,' ravenous.
26.3: 'St. Mary knot,' a triple knot.
32.4: The copy reads 'should no make.'
33.1: 'jack,' jerkin.
40.1: 'blan,' stopped.
47.2: 'limmer,' rascal.
56.3: I have inserted 'thou' to complete the sense; 'and,' here and
below, 60.4, meaning 'if.']

SIR HUGH IN THE GRIME'S DOWNFALL

+The Text+ given here is comparatively a late one, from the Roxburghe
collection (iii. 456). An earlier broadside, in the same and other
collections, gives a longer but curiously corrupted version, exhibiting
such perversions as 'Screw' for 'Scroop,' and 'Garlard' for 'Carlisle.'

+The Story+ in its full form relates that Sir Hugh in the Grime (Hughie
Graeme or Graham) stole a mare from the Bishop of Carlisle, by way of
retaliation for the Bishop's seduction of his wife. He was pursued by
Lord Scroop, taken, and conveyed to Carlisle and hanged.

Scott suggested that Hugh Graham may have been one of four hundred
Borderers accused to the Bishop of Carlisle of various murders and
thefts about 1548.

SIR HUGH IN T