Deplike dede he him swere
On bok, þat he sholde me bere
Vnto þe se, an drenchen ine,
And [he] wolde taken on him þe sinne.
But Grim was wise.
But grim was wis, and swiþe hende,
Wolde he nouth his soule shende;
Leuere was him to be for-sworen,
Þan drenchen me, and ben for-lorn;
But sone bigan he forto fle