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,