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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

that ordinance was ready;