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,