So also in the Romance of Guy of Warwick:
He was the best knight at neede
That euer bestrode any stede.
Coll. Garrick, K. 9. sign. Ll. ii.
Again, in the Continuation of Sir Gy, in the Auchinleck MS., (ed. for the Abbotsford Club, 1840, 4to; p. 266),
The best bodi he was at nede
That ever might bistriden stede,
And freest founde in fight.
And again, in the Chronicle of England, published by Ritson from a copy in the British Museum, MS. Reg. 12. C. XII.
After him his sone Arthur