To seke a monkës male.’

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‘How moch is in yonder other corser?’ sayd Robyn,

‘The soth must we see:’

‘By Our Lady,’ than sayd the monke,

‘That were no curteysye,

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‘To bydde a man to dyner,

And syth hym bete and bynde.’

‘It is our oldë maner,’ sayd Robyn,