"By St.John! I will teach him to forestall my sport!" "So please your lordship," said the bonnet maker, "he did take me at disadvantage.

But I got on horseback again afterwards, and pricked after him gallantly.

He calls himself Richard the Devil." "How, man! he that the rhymes and romances are made on ?" said the provost.

"I thought that smaik's name had been Robert." "I trow they be different, my lord.

I only graced this fellow with the full title, for indeed he called himself the Devil's Dick, and said he was a Johnstone, and a follower of the lord of that name.