Therfore delay a time, thou shortly shalt receiue

With full consent the thing, which now thou seek’st to haue.

Harolde.

8.

Then I in hast my power did prepare,[1256]

For why, I hearde my brother Tostoe’s[1257] trayne,

Two of my earles by north he had destroyd,[1258]

And manye a thousand men he there had layne:

But when we met, his triumphe was in vayne:

For I and myne the Norway king there kilte,