‘I am come to holde my day:’

The fyrst word the abbot spake,

‘Hast thou brought my pay?’

104

‘Not one peny,’ sayd the knyght,

‘By God that maked me;’

‘Thou art a shrewed dettour,’ sayd the abbot;

‘Syr iustyce, drynke to me.

105

‘What doost thou here,’ sayd the abbot,