64.

Wher syx and thrittë Skottishe knyghtes

on a day wear beaten down:

Glendale glytteryde on ther armor bryght,

over castille, towar, and town.

65.

65.2 ‘spurn’ = kick(?): Child suggests the reading:—‘That ear [= e’er] began this spurn!’ as a lament. But the whole meaning is doubtful.

This was the hontynge off the Cheviat,

that tear begane this spurn;

Old men that knowen the grownde well yenoughe