15.1 ‘ae’ (y in the MS.), one. Cf. 21.3.
O the first ae stroke that they gae him,
They struck him off by the knee;
Then up bespake his sister’s son:
‘O the next’ll gar him die!’
16.
‘O some they count ye well-wight men,
But I do count ye nane;
For you might well ha’ waken’d me,
And ask’d gin I wad be taen.