Has never lang time to stay.’ (diddle)

15.

15.1-4 Cp. Clerk Sanders, 15.

Then out the knight has drawn his sword,

An’ straiked it o’er a strae,

An’ thro’ and thro’ the fa’se knight’s waste

He gard cauld iron gae:

An’ I hope ilk ane sal sae be serv’d

That treats ane honest man sae.