“Ya! leue, ya!” quod roberd sone,

“We hauen ful god lith of þe mone.”

Roberd grop a staf, strong and gret,

Þat mouthe ful wel bere a net,

and William too, and Bernard.

And willam wendut grop a tre

Mikel grettere þan his þe,[82]

And bernard held his ax ful faste;

[Fol. 213b, col. 1.]

I seye, was he nouth þe laste;