"Now Cristes corpse on his crown," said the lord Perse,

"Whosoever there-to says nay;

By my troth, doughty Douglas," he says,

"Thou shalt never see that day.

"Neither in England, Scotland, nor France,

Nor for no man of a woman born,

But, and fortune be my chance,

I dare meet him, one man for one."

Then bespake a squire of Northumberland,

Richard Wytharyngton was him name;