Another tolde how shyppes wente to wrak;

There were many wordes smaller and gretter,

With, I as good as thou, Ifayth and no better;

Some came to tell treuth, some came to lye, 510

Some came[1610] to flater, some came to spye:

There were, I say, of all maner of sortis,

Of Dertmouth, of Plummouth, of Portismouth also;

The burgeis and the ballyuis of the v portis,

With, Now let me come, and now let me go:

And all tyme wandred I thus to and fro,