offering never to oppose him,
Ayen þe, louerd, shel ne spere,
Ne oþer wepne[24] that may you dere.
Louerd, haue merci of me!
and to flee from Denmark.
To-day i wile fro denemark fle,
Ne neuere more comen ageyn:
Sweren y wole, þat bircabein
Neuere yete me ne gat:”—
Hwan þe deuel he[r]de[25] that,