Yet sone a hungerd from thence I yode,

And wantyng mony I cold not spede.

Then hyed I me to Belyngsgate;

And one cryed, "hoo! go we hence!"

I prayd a barge man, for God's sake,

That he wold spare me my expence.

"Thou scapst not here," quod he, "under ij. pence;

I lyst not yet bestow any almes dede."

Thus lackyng mony I could not speede.

Then I convayd me into Kent;