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.']
+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.
1. Good Lord John is a hunting gone, Over the hills and dales so far, For to take Sir Hugh in the Grime, For stealing of the bishop's mare. _He derry derry down_
2. Hugh in the Grime was taken then And carried to Carlisle town; The merry women came out amain, Saying, 'The name of Grime shall never go down.'
3. O then a jury of women was brought, Of the best that could be found; Eleven of them spoke all at once, Saying 'The name of Grime shall never go down.'
4. And then a jury of men was brought, More the pity for to be! Eleven of them spoke all at once, Saying 'Hugh in the Grime, you are guilty.'