“We ne haue to hete, ne we ne haue
Herinne neyther knith ne knaue
Þat yeueth us drinken, ne no mete,
Haluendel þat we moun ete.
“Alas, that we were born!”
Wo is us þat we weren born!
Weilawei! nis it no korn,
Þat men micte maken of bred?
Vs[21] hungreth, we aren ney ded.”
[21] MS. þs; of. l. 455.