He toke his sweard and hys bucler,

Hys bow and hys chyldren thre,

And wente into hys strongest chamber,

Where he thought surest to be.

25.

Fayre Alyce followed him as a lover true,

With a pollaxe in her hande:

‘He shall be deade that here cometh in

Thys dore, while I may stand.’

26.