In velvet coates waited the abbot about.

4.

‘How now, father abbot, I heare it of thee,

Thou keepest a far better house than mee,

And for thy house-keeping and high renowne,

I feare thou work’st treason against my crown.’

5.

5.3 ‘deere,’ harm.

‘My liege,’ quo’ the abbot, ‘I would it were knowne,

I never spend nothing but what is my owne;