Hast thou any horn beasts, the sheriff repli’d,
Good fellow, to sell unto me ?
“Yes, that I have, good master sheriff,
I have hundreds two or three, {179}
And a hundred aker of good free land,
If you please it to see :
And Ile make you as good assurance of it,
As ever my father made me.”
The sheriff he saddled his good palfrèy,
And, with three hundred pound in gold,