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,