And looked under the grene wood lynde,
He was ware of his wife and chyldren three,
Full wo in herte and mynde.
102.
‘Welcome, wyfe,’ than sayde Wyllyam,
‘Unto this trysty-tre:
I had wende yesterday, by swete saynt John,
Thou sholde me never have se.’
103.
‘Now well is me,’ she sayd, ‘that ye be here,