The wind it blew hard, and full sore it did rain:

‘Now fare you well, brave Guiltknock Hall!

I fear I shall never see thee again.’

9

Now John he is to Edenborough gone,

And his eightscore men so gallantly,

And every one of them on a milk-white steed,

With their bucklers and swords hanging down to the knee.

10

But when John he came the king before,