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]