The vois, and he therto ansuerde,

‘What wiht art thou in goddes name?’

‘I am,’ quod Adrian, ‘the same,

Whos good thou schalt have evene half.’

Quod Bardus, ‘Thanne a goddes half

The thridde time assaie I schal’:

And caste his corde forth withal

Into the pet, and whan it cam

To him, this lord of Rome it nam, 5020

And therupon him hath adresced,[318]