58.

‘We have a letter,’ sayd Adam Bell,

‘To the justice we must it bryng;

Let us in our message to do,

That we were agayne to our kyng.’

59.

‘Here commeth no man in,’ sayd the porter,

‘By hym that dyed on a tre,

Tyll a false thefe be hanged

Called Wyllyam of Cloudesle.’