“They will hang us,” said Lamme.
“We shall pass,” replied Ulenspiegel.
Thus talking, they arrived at the Magpie inn, where they found good meals, good beds, and hay for their asses.
The next day they set out on their way to Landen.
Having arrived at a great farm near the city, Ulenspiegel whistled like the lark, and immediately there answered from within the warlike clarion of a cock. A farmer with a goodly face appeared on the threshold of the farmhouse. He said to them:
“Friends, as freemen, long live the Beggar! Come within.”
“Who is this one?” asked Lamme.
Ulenspiegel replied:
“Thomas Utenhove, the brave reformer; his serving men and women on the farm work like him for freedom of conscience.”
Then Utenhove said: