Slypped vpon a sloumbe-slepe, and sloberande he routes.
A “freke,” or man, was sent to rouse him and to prepare him for the casting of lots:
The freke hym frunt with his fot, and bede hym ferk up.
Then came the casting of the lots:
And ay the lote, vpon laste, lymped on Jonas.
The sailors immediately began to upbraid Jonah in masculine English:
What the deuel hest thou don, dotede wrech?
What seches thou on see, synful schrewe,
With thy lastes [crimes] so luther [evil] to lose vus vchone?
Soon after follows the decision to throw him overboard: