Besyde the pyllorye.

43.

A lytle boy stood them among,

And asked what meaned that gallow-tre?

They sayde, ‘To hange a good yeman,

Called Wyllyam of Cloudesle.’

44.

That lytle boye was the towne swyne-heard,

And kept fayre Alyce swyne;

Full oft he had seene Cloudesle in the wodde,