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To lay thee law as horfes hufe,
My word I mean to keip.
Syne with the firll ftrake eir he ftrake,
He garrd his body bleid.
xxxr.
Norfe ene lyke gray gofehawks flaird wyl^
He fight with fhame and fpy te ;
J)ijgracd is new ?ny far famd arm
That left thee power to Jiryke ;
Then gave his head a blaw fae fell,
It made him doun to floup,
As law as he to ladies us*d
In courtly gyfe to lout.
XXXIf.
Full foon he raised his bent body,
His bow he marvelfd fair,
Sen blaws till then on him but damf
As touch of Fairly fair :
Norfe ferliet too as fair as he
To fee his {lately look,
Sae foon as eir he Jtrake a fae*
Sae foon his lyfe he took.
xxxm,
Whair like a fyre to hether fet,
Bauld Thomas did advance,
A flurdy fae with lock enragd
Up towards him did prance ;
He fpurd his lieid throw thickeft ranks
The hardy youth to quell,
Wha frood unmov'd at his approach
His furie to repell.
XXXtV.
Thatjhort hrcwnjhaft fae meanly trimd^
Looks like poor Scotlands Geir,
But dreidfuli feiins the rtify poynt /
And loud he leugh in jeir.
Jft Britains blude has dimd itsjhyne,
'Xhis poynt cut Jhori their vaunt i