119.

119.2 ‘nere,’ nearer. Cp. Robin Hood and the Potter, 46.3.

‘Though ye wolde gyve a thousand more,

Yet were ye never the nere;

Shal there never be myn heyre

Abbot, justice, ne frere.’

120.

He stert hym to a borde anone,

Tyll a table rounde,

And there he shoke oute of a bagge