So pas yhe not, nor ſo It ſall not bee.”

[456] “Than,” quod the clerkis, “grant ws dais three.”

[Fol. 7.]

He grants them three days more.

The wich he grantid them, and but delay,

The term paſſith, no thing wold the ſay,

Wharof the king ſtondith heuy cherith,

[460] And to the clerkis his viſag ſo apperith,

That all thei dred them of the kingis myght.

They pray for a further delay of three days.