74.

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

An earl after my father doth die;

My father is the good lord of Learne,

And child he hath no other but me.

My father sent me over with the false steward,

And thus that he hath beguiled me.

75.

‘Woe be to the steward, lady,’ he said,

‘Woe be to him verily!