Sket cam tiding intil ubbe,

Þat hauelok hauede with a clubbe

Of hise slawen sixti and on

Sergaunz, þe beste þat mithen gon.

Ubbe comes to see what is the matter.

“Deus!” quoth ubbe, “hwat may þis be!

Betere his i nime[86] miself and se,

Þat þis baret on hwat is wold,

Þanne i sende yunge or old.

For yif i sende him un-to,