“Thou warn’st me I have done amiss,—

I should have earlier look’d to this:

I lost it in this bustling day.

—Retrace with speed thy former way;

Spare not for spoiling of thy steed,

The best of mine shall be thy meed.

Say to our faithful Lord of Mar,

We do forbid the intended war:

Roderick, this morn, in single fight,

Was made our prisoner by a knight;