Ych on other so faste thee beette,

Tyll ther helmes cam in peyses dowyn.

55.

55.2 ‘stounde,’ moment of time, hour.

The Perssy was a man of strenghth,

I tell yow, in thys stounde;

He smote the Dowglas at the swordes length

That he fell to the growynde.

56.

The sworde was scharpe, and sore can byte,