A litull̴ be-ffore the mydnyght [1420]

He Rode be a foreste.

The shipmen said: ‘We be shent;

Here dwellith a geaunt, verament,

On his lond are we kest!’

1424. kest] sett MS.

[(123)]

The maistershipmon) said: ‘Nowe [1425]

I Rede, we take down) sayle & Rowe,

While we haue this tyde. [1430]