Peter Alphonse

“ Whiche put and sette in so straite [6] an angwissh, seeyng nowher no subsidie, refuge, nor help whider to flee, sawe a Tonne of the whiche that on end was out, lay in the porche of the house. The whiche forsoth whan he had seen, thider tended, and willyng hymsilf ther to huyde, entred in hopyng to escape the perel folowyng. ”

“ The clerk heryng that wherfor to torn hym vttirly [2] he wist nat. Only out of the chamber he [3] went for to huyde hym and for overmoche dreede so astonyed that he wist nat wher to torne hym, or bi what wey to go out of the Court vttirly [4] he wist nat. Forsoth also he herd al the houshold as in suche a busynes evene moeved, and to tho thynges whiche to the lord and his felawship and to hors wern necessary, here and ther ran and arraied. ”