Note W — ENGLAND'S FORGOTTEN WORTHIES.[U]
Reading edition
Here is the old stanza. Let whoever is disposed to think us too hard on Captain Bethune compare them:—
'For Wetharrington my harte was wo, That even he slayne sholde be; For when both his leggis were hewen in to, He knyled and fought on his knee.'
Even Percy, who, on the whole, thinks well of the modern ballad, gives up this stanza as hopeless.