To come and comfort his wyfe.

94.

94.3 ‘lynde,’ tree: cp. 101.2. Here perhaps it means linden.

Thus be these good yomen gon to the wode,

As lyghtly as lefe on lynde;

They laugh and be mery in theyr mode,

Theyr enemyes were farr behynde.

95.

Whan they came to Inglyswode,

Under their trysty-tre,