Nor strenght of men[239] which were (alas) to fewe:

The cruell folke assaulted so my horse:

That all my helpes in peeces they to hewe:

Our bloud distayned the grounde as drops of dewe,

Naught might preuayle to flye nor[240] yet to yeelde,

For whome they take they murder in the fielde.

18.

They know no law of armes,[241] nor none will learne,

They make not warre (as other doe) a play:

The lord, the boy, the gallowglas, the kerne,