‘Sey me, Reyno[l]de Grenëlefe,

Wolde thou dwell with me?

And euery yere I woll the gyue

Twenty marke to thy fee.’

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‘I haue a maister,’ sayde Litell Johnn,

‘A curteys knight is he;

May ye leuë gete of hym,

The better may it be.’

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