24.
23.4 ‘bestand,’ help.
‘Now give me leave, give me leave, master,’ he said,
‘For Christ’s love give leave to me
To set a fire within this hall,
And to burn up all Churchlee.’
25.
‘That I rede not,’ said Robin Hood then,
‘Little John, for it may not be;
If I should do any widow hurt, at my latter end,