And don al þat ye euere wilen.”

The cook is content to hire him.

Quoth þe kok, “wile i no more;

Go þu yunder, and sit þore,

And y shal yeue þe ful fair bred,

And make þe broys in þe led.

Sit now doun and et ful yerne:

Daþeit hwo þe mete werne!”

[47] Soddot, MS.

[48] MS. to turuen; but the u and n are almost indistinguishable. Cf. l. 603; and William of Palerne, 2590.