Then bespake Lytell Johan,
To Much he gan say,
‘I dare lay my lyfe to wedde,
That these monkes have brought our pay.
215.
215.2 ‘frese’ occurs nowhere else, and its meaning is unknown.
215.3 ‘seker and sad,’ resolute and staunch.
‘Make glad chere,’ sayd Lytell Johan,
‘And frese your bowes of ewe,
And loke your hertes be seker and sad,