“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;