‘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,