And of his nobill sonnis three, Quhilk that tyme had no maik; Quhilk maid Scotland renounit be, And all England to quaik.
Of auld Sir Richard, of that name, We have hard sing and say; Of his triumphant nobill fame, And of his auld baird gray.
Sen I fra Diomeid and nobill Troilus Am clene excludit, as abject odious?
Than to thair cry nobill Troilus tuik heid; 495 Having pity, neir by the place can pas Quhair Cresseid sat, nat witting quhat sho was.
Yit thay presumit, for hir hy regrait And still murning, sho was ofnobill kin; With better will thairfoir they tuik hir in.
Bot now, Turnus, heir thou lyggis ded: Quhar is the nobill renovn of thy ȝouthed?
Heir is an notabyll doctryn, that nane nobill man suld hastely reveng him eftir his greif.
Twenty he had that nobill archaris war, Agayne sewyn scoyr of Ingliss bowmen sar.
The nobill king, ryngand in ryolté, 1625 Had gret delyte this Wallace for to se; And knew rycht weill schortly to wndyrstand The gret suppryss and ourset off Ingland.
That seruall stuff, and all his othir weid, 375 Bathe bayn and brayn, the nobill suerd throuch yeid.
Syne Wallace toun, and othir landis thartill, To worthi men he delt with nobill will.
Costis herfor was no man bond to me; In this sentence I had na will to be, 1440 Bot in als mekill as I rahersit nocht Sa worthely as nobill Wallace wrocht.
Kyrkpatryk than, Thom Halyday, and thair men, Thar douchty deid was nobill for to ken.
Off gud men than thre hundreth till him socht; The woman had tald thre trew burges, at brocht Out off the toun, with nobill aile and breid, And othir stuff, als mekill as thai mycht leid.
Yon Sewart is a nobill worthy knycht; “Forthwart in wer, rycht worthy, wyss and wicht.
In his armour weill forgyt off fyne steill, A nobill cursour bur him bath fast and weill.
For feill of thame durst nocht for dreid, And othir-sum rycht in-to ded War fais to the nobill Kyng, 592 That rewit syne thair barganyng.
Apon this wis the nobill King Gaf all his men reconforting, Throu hardy countynans and cher 500 That he maid on sa gud maner.
Schir Johne Steward, ane nobill knycht, 80 Wes woundit throu the body thair With a sper that richt scharply schair.
And on the morn, forouten mare, Toward the nobill King he raid, And with him bath thai twa he had.
Sidenote: 1307] The King Fights with Three] Now, bot God help the nobill King, He is neir hand till his ending!
In-to that tyme the nobill King, With his flot and a few menyhe, Thre hundir I trow thai mycht weill be, 16 Is to the se, furth of Arane A litill forrow the evyn gane.
He answerit, "God forbid that my confessioune soulde dampne those nobill men that of thair conscience, and with displasour of the Quene, have absolved me.
Item, Gif it shalbe askit of yow, at what place our freindis and bretherin of England shalbe mett, and what day, what nomber, and what Nobill men in cumpany?
O case most horrible that euer so nobill a king Realme, and succession shulde thus be made to stoupe to suche a sort of bloodsuppers.
The nobill king Arthur had neuer ben abill to haue caried his armie to the fote of the mountaines to resist the coming downe of lucius the Emperoure if suche yerely exaction had ben taken of his people.
For the whiche mater your most nobill realme wrongfully (alas for shame) hath stond tributary (not vnto any kind temporall prince, but vnto a cruell deuelisshe bloudsupper dronken in the bloude of the sayntes and marters of christ) euersins.
Quha triumphis nocht bot sic as tyris To win a nobill name?
Sum ar sonobill and full of gentilnes, Thay luf no-thing bot joy and merynes.
Ane nobill man and undefamit, Gif that all the suith war schawin.
Godis saik be very var vith his raklese toyis of Padoa: For he tald me ane of the strangest taillis of ane nobill man of Padoa that ever I hard in my lyf, resembling the lyk purpose.
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