I’le make thee heire [of] after mee.’

34

And then bespake the shepard’s wife,

To the Lord of Learne thus did she say;

‘Goe thy way to our sheepe,’ she said,

‘And tend them well both night and day.’

35

It was a sore office, O Lord, for him

That was a lord borne of a great degree!

As he was tending his sheepe alone,