How his boy and hee were at the plowe.

11

‘But stand you still,’ sayes Hobby Noble,

‘Stand you still heere at this shore,

And I will ryde to yonder old man,

And see w[h]ere the gate it lyes ore.

12

‘But Christ you saue, father!’ quoth hee,

‘Crist both you saue and see!

Where is the way ouer this fford?