She sent me not my pay.’

236

‘Haue no doute, mayster,’ sayd Lytell Johan,

‘Ye haue no nede, I saye;

This monke it hath brought, I dare well swere,

For he is of her abbay.’

237

‘And she was a borowe,’ sayd Robyn,

‘Betwene a knyght and me,

Of a lytell money that I hym lent,