63.4 The MS. reads ’... robbed a 100: 3,’
‘Will you believe me, lady fair,
When the truth I do tell ye?
At Aberdonie beyond the sea
His father he robbed a hundred [and] three.’
64.
But then bespake the duke of France
Unto the boy so tenderly,
Says, ‘Boy, if thou love horses well,
My stable groom I will make thee.’