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“That I rede not,” said Little John, “Master, by th’ assent of me, Without half a hundred of your best bowmen You take to go with yee.”

The Wildgrave spurred his ardent steed, And, launching forward with a bound, "Who, for thy drowsy priestlike rede, Would leave the jovial horn and hound?"

"Well, but Denys, whether you hearken his rede, or slight it, wherefore blame a man for raising his voice to save your soul?"

As you desire to speed, If you this feast will visit, hearken to our rede.

“Well, then, your dog dined with me and did not pay: so I have, following your own rede, taken his best and his only coat.”