If thou will do that which thou spak,[263]

And make us present pay.

O then he loosed his clouted clock,

And spread it on the ground,

And thereon lay he many a poke,

Betwixt them and the wind.

He took a great bag from his hals,[264]

It was near full of meal,

Two pecks in it at least there was,

And more, I wot full well.