Quoth he, ‘I thank yee, fair lady,

This kindnes thou showest to me;

But whether it be to my weal or woe,

This night I will lig with thee.’

8.

With that he heard, a little tynë page,

By his ladye’s coach as he ran:

‘All though I am my ladye’s foot-page,

Yet I am Lord Barnard’s man.

9.