‘Yield me yer life or your lady fair,
An ye sal walk the green woods within.’
12
‘For to gie my wife to thee,
I wad be very laith,’ said he;
‘For than the folk wad think I was gane mad,
Or that the senses war taen frae me.’
13
Up than bespak the niest foremost knight,
I trow he spak right boustrouslie;