44.
44.2 ‘say,’ saw.
An archar off Northomberlonde
say slean was the lord Persë;
He bar a bende bowe in his hand,
was made off trusti tre.
45.
45.2 i.e. till the point reached the wood of the bow.
An arow, that a cloth-yarde was lang,
to the harde stele halyde he;