Twenty score paces betwene.
149.
‘I hold him an archar,’ said Cloudesle,
‘That yonder wande cleveth in two.’
‘Here is none suche,’ sayd the kyng,
‘Nor none that can so do.’
150.
150.3 ‘bearyng arowe,’ ? a very long arrow, such as requires to be carried in the hand. Cf. Sir Andrew Barton, 53.3.
‘I shall assaye, syr,’ sayd Cloudesle,
‘Or that I farther go.’