But if you will give me but three weekes space,
Ile do my endeavour to answer your grace.’
10.
‘Now three weeks space to thee will I give.
And that is the longest time thou hast to live;
For if thou dost not answer my questions three,
Thy lands and thy livings are forfeit to mee.’
11.
Away rode the abbot all sad at that word,
And he rode to Cambridge, and Oxenford;