‘Let me goe strike the knaue;

This is all the reward I aske,

Nor noe other will I haue.’

51

‘Thou art a madman,’ said the shiriffe,

‘Thou sholdest haue had a knights ffee;

Seeing thy asking [hath] beene soe badd,

Well granted it shall be.’

52

But Litle Iohn heard his master speake,