Deus est Deus pauperum.

"It were a good deed, as I am a knight,

To burn him in a fire bright;

This John-a-Wood shall surely die,

And his gold in my strong chest shall lie."

Deus est Deus pauperum.

"This very night, I make mine avow.

The truth of this mine eyes shall know."

Then spoke an old knight in the hall,

"Who knoweth what things may befall?"