The noyis rouschit throuch straikis that thai dang.

The rewmour raiss so rudly thaim amang,

That all the ost was than in poynt to fle.555

The wyss lordis, fra thai the perell se,

The fellone fray, all rasyt wes about;

And how thar king stud in so mekill dout;

Till his palyone, how mony thousand socht,

Him to reskew be ony way thai mocht!560

The erle of Kent that nycht [had] walkand beyne,

With fyve thousand off men in armour cleyne;