The king puts me in trust

To look to his deer, that range here and there ;

Therefore stay thee I must.

“If thou beest a keeper in this forrèst,

And hast such a great command,

‘Yet’ thou must have more partakers in store,

Before thou make me to stand.” {183}

“Nay, I have no more partakers in store,

Or any that I do not need ;

But I have a staff of another oke graff,