In the spite of mine and me?"

The first man that ever him an answer made,

It was the good lord Perse:

"We will not tell thee whose men we are," he says,

"Nor whose men that we be;

But we will hunt here in this chase,

In the spite of thine and of thee.

"The fattest harts in all Cheviot

We have killed, and cast to carry them a-way:"

"Be my troth," said the doughty Douglas again,