It may be, when thou hast heard all, that thou wilt still be wroth with me, though not for mockery, which was never in my mind.

But the gentle damsel, thy friend, will assuredly pardon me, who have already put my life in peril for thy sake, and for the sake of our dear country of Scotland and her good name." "Thy life in peril for me! How mean you?
I stood in no danger, and I never saw your face before." "Yet hast thou saved my life," I said; "but of that we may devise hereafter.

I am, indeed, though a gentleman by blood and birth, the apprentice of the father of this damsel, thy friend, who is himself a gentleman and of a good house, but poverty drives men to strange shifts.
This day I went with my master to the castle, and I was on the drawbridge when thou, with the gentlemen thy esquires, passed over it to see the King.

On that bridge a man-at-arms spoke to thee shameful words, blaspheming the holy name of God.

No sooner hadst thou gone by than he turned on me, reviling my native country of Scotland.