Truste not els but that I am take,

Or else that I am slayne.’

10

He toke hys leaue of hys brethen two,

And to Carlel he is gone;

There he knocked at hys owne wyndowe,

Shortlye and anone.

11

‘Wher be you, fayre Alyce, my wyfe,

And my chyldren three?