Daþeit þat on þat þer-fore let!
But dunten him so man doth bere,
and cast him on an old mare, to take him to Havelok.
And keste him on a scabbed mere,
Hise nese went un-to þe crice:
So ledden he þat fule swike,
Til he was biforn hauelok brouth,
Þat he haue[de] ful wo wrowht,
Boþe with hungre[110] and with cold,
Or he were twel winter old,