‘[T]hat these traytours theroute not go.’

91

But all for nought was that they wrought,

For so fast they downe were layde

Tyll they all thre, that so manfully fought,

Were goten without at a brayde.

92

‘Haue here your keys,’ sayd Adam Bell,

‘Myne offyce I here forsake;

Yf ye do by my councell,