Then he made the best of his speed unto him, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; [Swift flew the boar, with his tusks smeared with gore,][L23] _To Sir Ryalas, the jovial hunter_. Then the wild boar, being so stout and so strong, 25 _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; Thrashed down the trees as he ramped him along, _To Sir Ryalas, the jovial hunter_. "O what dost thee want of me?" wild boar, said he, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; 30 "O I think in my heart I can do enough for thee, _For I am the jovial hunter_." Then they fought four hours in a long summer day, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; Till the wild boar fain would have got him away 35 _From Sir Ryalas, the jovial hunter_. Then Sir Ryalas drawed his broad sword with might, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; And he fairly cut the boar's head off quite, _For he was a jovial hunter_. 40 Then out of the wood the wild woman flew, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; "O my pretty spotted pig thou hast slew, _For thou beest a jovial hunter_. "There are three things, I demand them of thee, 45 _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; "It's thy horn, and thy hound, and thy gay lady, _As thou beest a jovial hunter_." "If these three things thou dost ask of me," _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; 50 It's just as my sword and thy neck can agree, _For I am a jovial hunter_." Then into his long locks the wild woman flew, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; Till she thought in her heart to tear him through, 55 _Though he was a jovial hunter_. Then Sir Ryalas drawed his broad sword again, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; And he fairly split her head into twain, _For he was a jovial hunter_. 60 In Bromsgrove church, the knight he doth lie, _Wind well thy horn, good hunter_; And the wild boar's head is pictured thereby, _Sir Ryalas, the jovial hunter_. 23. Inserted by Bell. THE BLUDY SERK. _The Bludy Serk_, both story and morality, is taken from the _Gesta Romanorum_; see two forms of the tale in Madden's _Old English Versions_, &c. p. 22, p. 404. This poem is preserved in the Bannatyne Manuscript, and has been several times printed. The present copy is from Laing's _Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland_. The author is Robert Henryson, whose ballad of _Robene and Makyne_ has been given in the fourth volume of this collection.