In aspre spech the Persye than can speyr;
[“Quhat worth of him? I pray you graithlye tell.”]
‘My lord,’ he said, ‘rycht thus the case befell.
‘We knaw for treuth he was left him allayne;500
‘And, as he fled, he slew full mony ayne.
‘The horss we fand, that him that gait couth ber;
‘Bot of hym self no othyr word we her.
‘At Styrlyng bryg we wait he passit nocht;
‘To dede in Forth he may for vs be brocht.’505
Lorde Persye said; “Now suthlye that war syne;