Some of your lightfoote I wold we had heere.’
‘Ho, ho!’ quoth Richard, ‘full well I may say it;
It’s knauerye to eate it and then to bewray it.’
36
‘What! art thou angry?’ quoth our king merrilye,
‘Infaith I take it verry vnkind;
I thought thou woldest pledg me in wine or ale heartil[y].’
‘Yee are like to stay,’ quoth Dicke, ‘till I haue dind.
You feed vs with twatling dishes soe small;
Zounds! a blacke pudding is better then all.’