Ye holde never your londe in pees. {23}
An hondred pounde, sayd the abbot.
The justyce said, Gyve him two.
Nay, be god, sayd the knyght,
Yet gete[144] ye it not soo :
Though ye wolde gyve a thousande more,
Yet were ‘ye’ [145] never the nere :
Shall there never be myn eyre,
Abbot, justyse, ne frere.
He sterte hym to a borde anone,