5.
For if the king had risen forth of his place,
He would have sit him down in the chair,
And tho’ it beseemed him not so well,
Altho’ the king had been present there.
6.
Some lords in Scotland waxed wonderous worth,
And quarrell’d with him for the nonce;
I shall you tell how it befell;
Twelve daggers were in him all at once.