49

‘Looke that your brydle be wight, my lord,

That you may goe as a shipp att sea;

Looke that your spurres be bright and sharpe,

That you may pricke her while shee’le awaye.’

50

‘What needeth this, Douglas,’ he sayth,

That thou needest to ffloute mee?

For I was counted a horsseman good

Before that euer I mett with thee.