I am a yerle callyd within my contrë;

Let all our men vppone a parti stande,

and do the battell off the and of me.’

20.

20.1 ‘cors,’ curse.

‘Nowe Cristes cors on his crowne,’ sayd the lord Persë,

‘who-so-ever ther-to says nay!

Be my troth, doughttë Doglas,’ he says,

‘thow shalt never se that day.

21.