Sayd, Dame, wilt thou not trust me one shott

That I may sitt downe in this company?

23

‘Now, Christ’s curse on my head,’ shee said,

‘If I doe trust thee one pennye;’

Then be-spake a good fellowe,

Which sate by Iohn o the Scales his knee.

24

Said, Haue thou here, thou heire of Linne,

Forty pence I will lend thee;