Your lyfe were at an ende.’

9.

9.2 ‘pryme,’ about 9 a.m. Cp. 72.2.

‘If that I come not to-morrowe, brother,

By pryme to you agayne,

Truste not els but that I am take,

Or else that I am slayne.’

10.

He toke hys leave of hys brethren two,

And to Carlel he is gone;