Pikit him, & dikit him, on scorne said he, [Couwe.]
He pikes & dikes in length, as him likes, how best it may be,
& þou has for þi pikyng, mykille ille likyng, þe soþe is to se,
Without any lesyng, alle is þi heþing, fallen opon þe.
For scatred er þi Scottis, & hodred in þer hottes, neuer þei ne the.
Right als I rede, þei tombled in Tuede, þat woned bi þe se.
NOW is Edward left Berwik forto dike, [Fecit fossas circa Ber|wik.]
þe Scottis er risen eft, Inglond to bisuike.
þe gadred þam an oste, fourti þousand & mo,
þat com bi an oþer coste, þe Inglis forto slo.
þise were hede & meste, þat led þat meyne,
Rosse & Meneteste, Assetelle þise erles þre.
Corbrigge is a toun, þe brent it whan þei cam,
Tuo hous of religioun, [They commonly call it, Lanercost.] Leynertofte & Hexham.
þei chaced þe chanons out, þer godes bare away,
& robbed alle about, þe bestis tok to pray.
Whan þei had slayn & brent, robbed toun & feld,
To Dunbar alle þei went, als þer vnhap wild.
þe [Le chastel ount pris, estendent pauyllouns Al count de la Marche, estoy|ent les mesouns, MSS. Gall.] castelle sone þei toke, & þer þar pauilloun
þe erle Patrik men schoke, it was his owen donjoun.
Edward herd it say, þat Dunbar was so taken,
His folk was sone on away, with sege to hold þam waken.
¶ In alle þis ilk goyng so com þe Cardinalle [De Car|dinali.]
Fro Kaunbray to þe kyng with ansuere of alle,
