Ffull well, my lord, I know that wight;

He robd me of my merchants ware,

And I was his prisoner but yesternight.

23

As I was sayling vppon the sea,

And [a] Burdeaux voyage as I did ffare,

He clasped me to his archborde,

And robd me of all my merchants-ware.

24

And I am a man both poore and bare,