‘I tell you, so mote I thee;
I pray you show me the readiest way
the towne that I may see.’
11
‘Go play the great jauel!’ quoth the tanner,
‘I hold thee out of thy wit;
All day haue I ridden on Brocke, my mare,
and I am fasting yet.’
12
‘Why, we will to the towne,’ said our king,