The trompe of deth was at my gate 2210

In tokne that I scholde deie;

Thus be we come forto preie

That ye mi worldes deth respite.’

‘Ha fol, how thou art forto wyte,’

The king unto his brother seith,

‘That thou art of so litel feith,

That only for a trompes soun

Hast gon despuiled thurgh the toun,

Thou and thi wif in such manere