And prayed him for God's sake take heed.

But for lack of money, I might not speed.

Beneath them sat clerks a great rout,[98]

Which fast did write by one assent;

There stood up one and cried about

"Richard, Robert, and John of Kent!"

I wist not well what this man meant,

He cried so thickly there indeed.

But he that lacked money might not speed.

To the Common Pleas I yode tho,[99]