That ye will grant us grace,

For we have slain your fat fallow deer,

In many a sundry place."

"What be your names?" then said our king,

"Anon that you tell me:"

They said, "Adam Bel, Clym of the Clough,

And William of Cloudeslè."

"Be ye those thieves," then said our king,

"That men have told of to me?

Here to God I make a vow,