Though it lay now on a rawe {55}

God forbede, sayd lytell Much,

That dyed on a tre,

That thou sholdest, Lytell Johan,

Parte our company.

Up he toke him on his backe,

And bare hym well a myle,

Many a tyme he layd hym downe

And shot another whyle.

Then was there a fayre castèll,