23.3 ‘him’ = man, which is suggested by Furnivall.
‘And fare thou well, my good lord Clough!
Thou art thy father’s son and heir;
Thou never saw him in all thy life
But with him durst thou break a spear.
24.
‘We are brothers childer nine or ten,
And sisters children ten or eleven;
We never came to the field to fight,
But the worst of us was counted a man.’