‘But thou haddest brought thy pay?’

‘For God,’ than sayd the knyght,

‘To pray of a lenger daye.’

106

‘Thy daye is broke,’ sayd the iustyce,

‘Londe getest thou none:’

‘Now, good syr iustyce, be my frende,

And fende me of my fone!’

107

‘I am holde with the abbot,’ sayd the iustyce,