‘who-so-euer ther-to says nay!

Be my troth, doughttë Doglas,’ he says,

‘thow shalt neuer se that day.

21

‘Nethar in Ynglonde, Skottlonde, nar France,

nor for no man of a woman born,

But, and fortune be my chance,

I dar met him, on man for on.’

22

Then bespayke a squyar off Northombarlonde,