That I may sit down in this company?’
23.
‘Now Christ’s curse on my head,’ she said,
‘If I do trust thee one penny!’
Then bespake a good fellow,
Which sat by John o’ the Scales his knee;
24.
Said, ‘Have thou here, thou heir of Linne,
Forty pence I will lend thee;
Some time a good fellow thou hast been;