‘That maketh all this knockynge?

‘We be two messengers,’ sayd Clymme of the Clo[ughe],

‘Be comen streyght frome oure kynge.’

58

‘We haue a lettre,’ sayd Adam Bell,

‘To the justyce we must it brynge;

Let vs in, oure message to do,

That we were agayne to our kynge.’

59

‘Here cometh no man in,’ sayd the porter,