Such caitives count to be come of Cain’s kind.

Anc. Reliq. V. II. p. 130. Ed. 1765.

[2076.]

It ne shal no thing ben bitwene

Thi bour and min, also y wene,

But a fayr firrene wowe.

These lines will receive some illustration from a passage in Sir Tristrem, where it is said,

A borde he tok oway

Of her bour.

—p. 114.