The abbot told it to me.’

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‘Nowe and thou lese thy lond,’ sayde Robyn,

‘What woll fall of the?’

‘Hastely I wol me buske,’ sayd the knyght,

‘Ouer the saltë see,

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‘And se w[h]ere Criste was quyke and dede,

On the mount of Caluerë;

Fare wel, frende, and haue gode day;