Thou shalt never awayte me scathe,

By water ne by londe ;

And if thou fynde ony of my men,

By nyght or by day,

Upon thyne othe thou shalt swere,

To helpe them that thou may.

Now have the sheryf iswore his othe,

And home he began to gone,

He was as full of grene wode

As ever was hepe of stone.