For theyr lyvës stode in doute.
89.
89.4 ‘stoure,’ fight, disturbance.
The mayre came armed, a full great pace,
With a polaxe in hys hande;
Many a strong man wyth him was,
There in that stoure to stande.
90.
The mayre smote at Cloudesle with his bil,
Hys bucler he brast in two,