Or ellys of yemanry.

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‘Or ellys thou hast bene a sori husbande,

And lyued in stroke and stryfe;

An okerer, or ellis a lechoure,’ sayde Robyn,

‘Wyth wronge hast led thy lyfe.’

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‘I am none of those,’ sayde the knyght,

‘By God that madë me;

An hundred wynter here before