And she has gane and made their bed,
She's made it saft and fine;

'Lie still, lie still a little wee while,
Lie still but if we may;

And she's happit them wi' her gay mantil, Gin my mother miss us when she wakes, Because they were her ain.

But the young cock crew in merry Linkum,
And the wild fowl chirped for day;
And the aulder to the younger said,

'Brother, we maun away.

The cock doth craw, the day doth daw,

The channerin worm doth chide;
Gin we be missed out o' our place,
A sair pain we maun bide.'

She'll gae mad ere it be day.'

Tars fine old ballad, giving a most spirited and graphic description of a sea-fight, is taken from Percy's "Reliques." The incident on which it is founded, and the names themselves are historical. The story may be found in the English Chronicles for the year 1511, but the ballad is probably a century more modern.