How nearly is this the same with the doleful complaint of the wounded knight in Hardyknute!
'To me nae after day nor night
Can e'er be sweet or fair,' &c.
Lord Barnard pours out his contrition to his wife:
'With waefu' wae I hear your plaint,
Sair, sair I rue the deed,
That e'er this cursed hand of mine
Had garred his body bleed.'
'Garred his body bleed' is a quaint and singular expression: it occurs in Hardyknute, and nowhere else:
'To lay thee low as horse's hoof,