Drink! aye they cried, with mony a gaip,

The fiends gave them het lead to laip,

Their leveray was na less.[141]

X.

Nae minstrels played to them but doubt,[142]

For gleemen there were halden out,

Be day, and eke by nicht;

Except a minstrel that slew a man,

So to his heritage he wan,

And enterit by brieve of richt.[143]