When fryer Middleton came home,
His brethren was full fain ilkone,[91]
And thanked God for his life;
He told them all unto the end,
How he had foughten with a fiend,
And lived through mickle strife.
"We gave her battell half a day,
And sithin[92] was fain to fly away,
For saving of our life;[93]
And Peter Dale would never blinn,[94]