And shoten on him, so don on bere
Dogges, that wolden him to-tere.
The same comparison is made use of in the Romance of Horn Childe:
The Yrise folk about him yode,
As hondes do to bare.
Rits. Metr. Rom. V. III. p. 289.
See [Note on l. 2320].
[[1914.] “Cursed be he who cares! for they deserved it! What did they? There were they worried.” A mark of interrogation seems required after dide he.]
[1926-1930.] Sket cam tiding, &c. Comp. the Fr. l. 719.