The Bishop of Durham orders himself to fight
With his battle-axe in his hand;
He said ‘This day now I will fight
As long as I can stand!’
45.
45.4 ‘may,’ = maid; the Virgin.
‘And so will I,’ said my lord of Carlisle,
‘In this fair morning gay.’
‘And so will I,’ said my lord Fluwilliams,
‘For Mary, that mild may.’