[Printed also in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, i. 116, ‘From MS. Sloane, No. 1584, of the beginning of the sixteenth century, or latter part of the fifteenth, fol. 33ro., written in Lincolnshire or Nottinghamshire, perhaps, to judge by the mention of persons and places, in the neighbourhood of Grantham or Newark.’ J. O. Halliwell.]
Ante ffinem termini Baculus portamus,
Caput hustiarii ffrangere debemus;
Si preceptor nos petit quo debemus Ire,
Breuiter respondemus, “non est tibi scire.”
O pro nobilis docter, Now we youe pray,
Vt velitis concedere to gyff hus leff to play.
Nunc proponimus Ire, without any ney,
Scolam dissolvere; I tell itt youe in fey,
Sicut istud festum, merth-is for to make,