“Drawen as a felon in moost cruel wyse
...
Was lik a lamb offryd in sacrifise.”
MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 64.
v. 29. bobbid] i. e. struck. So Lydgate in the piece just cited;
“Bete and eke bobbid.”
Ibid.
and in the Coventry Mysteries, Nichodemus seeing Christ on the cross, says
“Why haue ȝe bobbyd and thus betyn owth
All his blyssyd blood?”