His frende than wyll I be.’

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‘Haue here foure hondred pounde,’ than sayd the knyght,

‘The whiche ye lent to me;

And here is also twenty marke

For your curteysy.’

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‘Nay, for God,’ than sayd Robyn,

‘Thou broke it well for ay;

For Our Lady, by her [hyë] selerer,