My harte is out of wo.’

‘Dame,’ he sayde, ‘be mery and glad,

And thanke my brethren two.’

104.

104.2 ‘no bote,’ no boot, i.e. no advantage.

‘Herof to speake,’ said Adam Bell,

‘I-wis it is no bote:

The meate, that we must supp withall,

It runneth yet fast on fote.’

105.