& roundlie he rode away.

7.

He had not ridden past a mile,

A mile out of the towne,

Her father was readye with her 7 brether,

He said, ‘Sett thou my daughter downe!

For it ill beseemes thee, thou false churles sonne,

To carry her forth of this towne!’

8.

‘But lowd thou lyest, Sir Iohn the Knight,