Gyue me your honde, farewell, and haue good daye.

DREDE.

Sodaynly, as he departed me fro,

Came pressynge in one in a wonder araye:

Er I was ware, behynde me he sayde, Bo! 500

Thenne I, astonyed of that sodeyne fraye,

Sterte all at ones, I lyked no thynge his playe;

For, yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche,

He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.

He was trussed in a garmente strayte: