He answerde wiþ-oute more,
'Say me ferst, þow faimel hore, [C line 11803]
Also god þe [me struck out before þe.] spede,
Why me stringþe is for-lore:
Siþþe þe time þat ich was bore
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Y nas in swiche a drede.
Ȝif þow ert of fendes come,
For whi þis drede me haue nome,
Ich wolde þat þow me sede.
In gode[s] name ich coniure þe
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Þat þow þe soþe telle me,
And be al is ferede.'
¶ Heraud seide, 'þer-of be stille:
Þat telle þe [nis] me wille
For noman aliue.
Erst þow schelt telle me
Wheþen þow ert, & what thow be,
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Also mote y þriue.
Þanne y schel telle þe riȝt
Boþe of me and of þis kniȝt
Þat ȝif[þ] þe dentes riue.
Þin hauberk is al to-siȝe,
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And þe face wiþ blod bewriȝe
Of woundes mo þan fiue.'
¶ He answerde, 'þow seist wel.
Boute for drede, be sein Miȝel,
Y nolde ben aknowe,
Ac for ich wolde wite an haste
Whi ich was so sore agaste
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Now in a lite þrowe.
In Ingelonde ich was bore,
So were min eldren me before
Boþe heȝ and lowe.
Heraud me fader het, y-wis: [y wis faded.]
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Of Walingforde lord a is, [folio 175a:b]
And al þe contre is owe.
