For greit sorrow his hart to birst was boun.
Syching full sadly, said, 'I can no moir;
Sho was untrew, and wo is me thairfoir!'
Sum said, he maid ane tomb of merbell gray,
And wrait hir name and superscriptioun,
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And laid it on hir grave, quhair that sho lay,
In goldin letteris, conteining this ressoun:—
'Lo! fair ladyis, Cresseid of Troyis toun,
Sumtyme countit the flour of womanheid,