‘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.’