56

‘Knowest thow Robyn Hode?’ seyde the screffe,

‘Potter, y prey the tell thow me;’

‘A hundred torne y haffe schot with hem,

Vnder hes tortyll-tre.’

57

‘Y had leuer nar a hundred ponde,’ seyde þe screffe,

‘And sware be the Trenitë,

. . . . . . .

Þat the ffals outelawe stod be me.’