till he was almost blind.
"And then they knit him in a sacke
which grieued him full sore;
They steep'd him in a Fat, God wot,
for three dayes space and more,
"Then they tooke him vp againe,
and laid him for to drie,
They cast him on a chamber floore,
and swore that he should die.
"They rubbed and they stirred him