That when I should haue gone to Blockham feast,
I could not passe, so sore they one me preast.
18.
And had not bene the officers so strong,
I thinke they would haue eaten[1112] me aliue,
Howbeit, hardly haled from the throng,
I was in the flete fast shrouded by the shriue:
Thus one daye’s life theyr malice did mee gieue,
Which whan they knew, for spite the next day after
They kept them calme, so suffered I the slaughter.