There came a man by middle day, He spied his sport and went away, And brought the King that very night, Who brake my bower and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear, He slew my knight and poined his gear; My servants all for life did flee, And left me in extremitie. I sewed his sheet, making my moan; I watched the corpse myself alone; I watched the body night and day, No living creature came that way. I took his body on my back, And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat, I digged a grave and laid him in, And happed him with the sod sae green. But think na ye my heart was sair, When I laid the mould on his yellow hair! O think na ye my heart was wae When I turned about away to gae! Nae living man I'll love again, Since that my lovely knight is slain; Wi' ae lock of his yellow hair I'll bind my heart for evermair. The devoted wife was buried with her husband. In a deserted burial place, which once surrounded the keep of Henderland, the monument was lately, and perhaps is still, to be seen. It is a large stone, broken into three parts, but some armorial bearings are traceable, and the following inscription--legible though much defaced, "HERE LYES PERYS OF COKBURNE AND HIS WYFE, MARJORY." During the civil wars with the "Roses," Carlisle suffered severely; sometimes from the one party and sometimes from the other--a calamity which it shared, however, with all the other principal towns of the kingdom. In the formidable rising against Henry the Eighth, led originally by Sir Robert Aske, and known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, the city was besieged by 8000 men. They were under the command of Nicholas Musgrave, Thomas Gilley, and others, who appeared as leaders of the movement, after it had been abandoned by Aske and its other originators. The citizens, knowing that the Duke of Norfolk was marching to their relief, sallied out upon their besiegers, and put them to flight. Seventy of the leaders were captured by the Duke; but Musgrave, the prime mover, escaped. The others were hanged and beheaded, and their heads placed upon the gates of the city. This happened in the year 1537.