56.4 ‘thronge,’ pressed, hastened.
Than Adam Bell bete on the gate
With strokës great and stronge:
The porter herde suche a noyse therat,
And to the gate faste he thronge.
57.
‘Who is there now,’ sayde the porter,
‘That maketh all this knockinge?’
‘We be two messengers,’ sayd Clim of the Clough,
‘Be comen streyght from our kyng.’