Who was my prisoner but yesterday.
52.
‘Come hither to me, thou Gordon good,
And be thou ready at my call,
And I will give thee three hundred pound
If thou wilt let my beams down fall.’
53.
53.1 ‘swarved,’ swarmed, climbed.
53.3 ‘bearing arrow’: perhaps a light arrow for long-distance shooting, but see 56.3; and cf. Adam Bell, 150.3.
With that he swarved the mainmast tree,