‘And that thanke I God and the.

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‘But take not a grefe,’ sayd the knyght, ‘that I haue be so longe;

I came by a wrastelynge,

And there I holpe a porë yeman,

With wronge was put behynde.’

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‘Nay, for God,’ sayd Robyn,

‘Syr knyght, that thanke I the;

What man that helpeth a good yeman,