‘And the knyght shall make a releyse?

And elles dare I safly swere

Ye holde neuer your londe in pees.’

118

‘An hondred pounde,’ sayd the abbot;

The justice sayd, Gyue hym two;

‘Nay, be God,’ sayd the knyght,

a.

‘Yit gete ye it not so.

119