She thankt the man, and she took his mony:

‘Now let us go to ’t,’ quoth he, ‘sweet hony:’

‘O stay,’ quoth she, ‘some respite make,

My father comes, he will me take.’

9

‘Alas!’ quoth the fryer, ‘where shall I run,

To hide me till that he be gone?’

‘Behinde the cloath run thou,’ quoth she,

‘And there my father cannot thee see.’

10