þis Reseamiraduk, als fole & vnwise,
His letter gan rebuk, sette it at light prise.
þe skaþe þat he myght do with slauhter or prison hard,
Alle he brouht þam to, þat longed tille Edward.
A þousand & tuo hundred þe date forscore & nine,
On our men þei wondred, in Wales did þam pyne.
WHAN Edward had bien in Gascoyn þre ȝere,
Ageyn he & þe quene on lond ryued vp here.
At his comyng he fond of clerkes & men of pleynt,
& justise of þe lond of falsnes was atteynt. [De falsi|tate justi|ciariorum.]
For giftes som justise lete þe lowe go doun,
& som on oþer wise did wrong to þe coroun.
þe first justise in benk Sir Thomas of Weland,
For falshed & for wrenk he forsuore þe land.
He went ouer to France, & com neuer ageyn,
His [Ses compaygnouns ses clers sunt pris & mene A [sive ad] la tour de Loundres, de|liuerez par mone, MSS. Gall.] clerkes stode to chance passed for a certeyn,
þei wer out of þe tour delyuerd for mone,
þer held þei long soiour, bot penies mad þam fre,
Opon his forward, or þei wer out gon,
To serue kyng Edward, neuer more suld þei non.
Sir Elys of Bekyngham to do lawe him was lefe,
Sir Jon of Metyngham he left þe justise chefe,
Sir Rauf of Heyngham þe wrong oft he ches,
He departed with gram, & þe benk les.
Sir Adam of Stretton fulle hard was he led,
Nouht without encheson, I lay my gloue to wed.
