Your strynges trusty and trewe.
216.
216.2 ‘somers’ = sumpters, pack-horses.
‘The monke hath two and fifty men,
And seven somers full stronge;
There rydeth no bysshop in this londe
So ryally, I understond.
217.
‘Brethern,’ sayd Lytell Johan,
‘Here are no more but we thre;