Quod Torrent: ‘Yf thow be a gentyll̴ man)
Or come of gentyll̴ blod,
Let thy beytyng and thy Ermyght be,
And come prove thy strenghe on me,
Therfor I sowght the, be the Rodde.’ [1010]
1008. Let be thy b. a. t. erm. MS.
[(88)]
The gyant sayd: ‘Be the Roode,
Dewell̴ of hell̴ send the fode,
Hether to seche me: