Was fleeter than the wind.

5.

Out then spack a wylie lord,

Unto the queen said he:

‘O tell me wha ’s the fairest face

Rides in the company?’

6.

6.1 ‘laird,’ a landholder, below the degree of knight.—Jamieson.

‘I’ve sene lord, and I’ve sene laird,

And knights of high degree,