That is so far beyond the sea.’

33.

‘I have no child,’ the shepherd said,

‘My boy, thou’st tarry and dwell with me;

My living,’ he said, ‘and all my goods,

I’ll make thee heir [of] after me.’

34.

And then bespake the shepherd’s wife,

To the lord of Learne thus did she say,

‘Go thy way to our sheep,’ she said,