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For we had rather loss our selves,
and die in open field,
before we would perjure our selves,
to prelacie to yeild
For they did lie at Glasgow town,
and we in open field
untill the time they fled away
to Stirling to get beild
They marched east throuh Lithgow
for to enlarge their forces
and sent for the north country
to come both foot and horses
Montrose did come and Athol both,
and with them many more,
and all the Highland Amorites
that had been here before,
The Lowdian mallishia they,
came with their coats of blew,
five hundred men from London came
claid in a ridish hue,
When they were assembled one and all
a full bragade were they
like to a pack of hellish hounds,
roring for their prey
When they were all provided well
in armour and amunition,
then thither wester did they come,
most cruel of intention,
When they came in by Blackburn town
and there lay down to rest them,
and then to plunder they began,
of all they had they rest them,
When they came in by the whitburn,
and the peckemes town,
upon the hight of the muirhead,
they laid their ligour down.
And their they lay untill the ⟨time⟩
