He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght
In hys londe another daye.
42.
42.1 i.e. I had rather be flayed.
‘Yet had I lever to be rynde and rente,
By Mary, that mykkel maye,
Then ever my manhood schulde be reprovyd
Wyth a Skotte another daye.
43.
43.3 ‘waryson,’ reward.