“Hwat haue ye seid,” quoth a ladde,

“Wenestu þat we ben adradde?

We shole at þis dore gonge

Maugre þin, carl, or outh longe.”

They break the door open with a boulder.

He gripen sone a bulder ston,

And let it fleye, ful god won,

Agen þe dore, þat it to-rof:

Auelok it saw, and þider drof,

Havelok seizes the bar of the door, and says,