were not in Cristiantë.

12. They were twenty hondred spear-men good,

withoute any fail;

They were borne along be the water a Twyde,

yth bowndës of Tividale.

13. "Leave of the brytlyng of the deer," he said,

"and to your bows look ye tayk good hede;

For never sithe ye were on your mothers borne

had ye never so mickle nede."

14. The doughty Douglas on a stede,