My landes for years three,

For a better man, of heart nor of hand,

Was not in all the north contre."

Of all that see a Scottish knight,

Was called Sir Hew the Monggombyrry;

He saw the Douglas to the death was dight,

He spended a spear, a trusty tree:—

He rode upon a courser

Through a hundrith archery:

He never stinted, nor never blane,