And so I do by thy burnysshed brande;

Thow arte an yerle, or elles a knyght.’

53.

‘By my good faythe,’ sayd the noble Perssye,

‘Now haste thou rede full ryght;

Yet wyll I never yelde me to the,

Whyll I may stonde and fyght.’

54.

They swapped together whyll that they swette,

Wyth swordës scharpe and long;