Up-chaunce ye may them mete.

Whether he be messengere,

Or a man that myrthes can,

Or yf he be a pore man,

Of my good he shall have some.

Forth then stert Lytel Johan,

Half in tray and tene,

And gyrde hym with a full good swerde,

Under a mantel of grene. {39}

They went up to the Sayles,