67.

67.4 ‘eye’: the MS. gives knee.

‘Woe be to thee, thou gelding!’ he said,

‘And to the mare that foaled thee!

Thou has stricken the lord of Learne

A little tiny above the eye.

68.

68.1 ‘after’ is superfluous (cp. 74.1), and is probably caught up from the next line.

‘First night after I was born, a lord I was;

An earl after my father doth die;