By god that made me,

Here be the best coresed hors

That ever yet sawe I me.

Lede them into the stable, he sayd,

That eased myght they be.

They shall not come therin, sayd the knyght,

By god that dyed on a tre.

Lordes were to mete isette

In that abbotes hall,

The knyght went forth and kneled downe,