‘Take me my golde agayne,’ saide the abbot,
‘Sir iustice, that I toke the:’
‘Not a peni,’ said the iustice,
‘Bi Go[d, that dy]ed on tree.’
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‘Sir [abbot, and ye me]n of lawe,
b.
Now haue I holde my daye;
Now shall I haue my londe agayne,
For ought that you can saye.’