That hee might ryde more easilye.

39

Sayes, ‘Iohn, now leape ouer a steede!’

And Iohn then hee lope ouer fiue:

‘I know well,’ sayes Hobby Noble,

‘Iohn, thy ffellow is not aliue.’

40

Then he brought him home to Mangerton;

The lord then he was att his meate;

But when Iohn o the Side he there did see,