Have I your leave to go ?" The Lady of Douglas looked at him a moment without speech.
"Surely you are not the same who rode away behind my son William.

You went out light and gay as David, my other young son.

There is now a look of Earl William himself in your face--his mother tells you so.
Well, you were suckled at the same breast as he.

May a double portion of his spirit rest on you! That lowering regard is the Douglas mark.
Follow on and turn not back till you find.

Strike and cease not, till all be avenged.