Which means probably that he burnt all that part of the bridge on the meadow side up to the place where its communication with the rest was cut off by the raising of the drawbridge.
[P. 223], l. 6, Erl of Asseles.—John de Strathbogie, Earl of Athol. He also was captured and executed.
—— l. 18, Tprot, Scot, for thi strif!—The word tprot appears to be a mere exclamation of contempt. In a poem on “The Propertees of the Shyres of Engelond,” printed by Hearne in the Introduction to the fifth volume of Leland’s Itinerary, we find it used, as here, against the Scots:—
“Northumbrelond hasty and hoot;
Westmerlond tprut Scotte!”
It will be found similarly used in a passage quoted in a note further on ([p. 391]). In Sir Thomas de la More’s Chronicle, it is applied to King Edward II.:—“Tprut! Sire King!” It seems to be taken from the French: in Jean Bodel’s Jeu de S. Nicolas (Théatre Français au Moyen-Age, edited by MM. Monmerqué and Michel) it is put in the mouths of the common gamblers in a public-house:—
“Tproupt! tproupt! bevons hardiement;
Ne faisons si le coc emplat.”—(p. 183.)
And again, immediately after (p. 184):—
“Tproupt! tproupt! où que soit passé, Diex!”