Then up and came that ladye brighte,
Faste ringing of her hande:
"For the maydens love, that most you love,
Withhold that deadlye brande:120
"For the maydens love that most you love,
Now smyte no more I praye;
And aye whatever thou wilt, my lord,
He shall thy hests obaye."
"Now sweare to mee, thou Eldridge knighte,125
And here on this lay-land,
That thou wilt believe on Christ his laye,
And therto plight thy hand:
"And that thou never on Eldridge [hill] come
To sporte, gamon, or playe;130
And that thou here give up thy armes
Until thy dying daye."
The Eldridge knighte gave up his armes,
With many a sorrowfulle sighe;
And sware to obey Syr Caulines hest,135
Till the tyme that he shold dye.
And he then up, and the Eldridge knighte
Sett him in his saddle anone;
And the Eldridge knighte and his ladye,
To theyr castle are they gone.140
Then he tooke up the bloudy hand,
That was so large of bone,
And on it he founde five ringes of gold,
Of knightes that had be slone.
Then he tooke up the Eldridge sworde,145
As hard as any flint;
And he tooke off those ringes five,
As bright as fyre and brent.