bor-brief

Updated: May 1, 2025

And here he was challenging me, who stood before him in a prentice's hodden grey! "Sir," I said, "I could wish you a better quarrel, but not more courtesy. Many a gentleman seeing me such as I am, would bid me send, ere he crossed swords with me, to my own country for my bor-brief, which I came away in too great haste to carry with me.

Andrew Lang - A Monk of Fife