‘Be my feth,’ sayd the dougheti Doglas agayn,
‘I wyll let that hontyng yf that I may.’
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3.2 ‘meany,’ band, company.
3.4 ‘the’ = they; so constantly, ‘shyars thre’; the districts (still called shires) of Holy Island, Norham, and Bamborough.
Then the Persë owt off Banborowe cam,
with him a myghtee meany,
With fifteen hondrith archares bold off blood and bone;
the wear chosen owt of shyars thre.
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