[243]. Wyme, PCC.
[272]. I.e. by so many score to the hundred. It is certainly a very hyperbolical expression, but he measures the cloth in the same way.—Ritson.
[280], helpe, W. wrappe, C.
[304]. leue, W. lende, C
THE SECONDE FYTTE.
Nowe is the knyght went on [his way],
This game [hym] thought full good;
When he loked on Bernysdale,
He blyssed Robyn Hode;
And whan he thought on Bernysdale,5
On Scathelock, Much, and Johan,
He blyssed them for the best company
That ever he in come.
Then spake that gentyll knyght,
To Lytel Johan gan he saye,10
"To-morrowe I must to Yorke toune,
To Saynt Mary abbay;
"And to the abbot of that place
Foure hondred pounde I must pay;
And but I be there upon this nyght15
My londe is lost for ay."
The abbot sayd to his covent,
There he stode on grounde,
"This day twelfe moneth came there a knyght
And borowed foure hondred pounde.20