I’ll mend thy living five hundred [pounds] a year.’

105.

But then bespake that bonny boy,

And answered the duke quickly,

‘I had rather marry your daughter with a ring of gold,

Than all the gold that e’er I blinked on with mine eye.’

106.

But then bespake the old lord of Learne,

To the duke of France thus he did say,

‘Seeing our children do so well agree,