Quhilk is not ordanit for dringis
But for Duikis, Empriouris, and Kingis.
V. Pinkerton’s Scotish Poems Reprinted, ii. 97.
V. Jamieson, Dict. in voce.
In that time a man that bore
(Wel fyfty pund, y woth, or more.)
This insertion receives additional authority from a similar passage in the Romance of Guy of Warwick, where it is mentioned as a proof of the rigorous system of justice pursued by Earl Sigard,
Though a man bore an hundred pound,
Upon him of gold so round,