| | For it was nyght & ferther mighte they nought | |
| | But for the loue of god they hym besought | |
| | Of herberowh and of ese as for hir peny | |
| 200 | The myller sayde agayn yf ther be eny | |
| | Suche as hit is yet shulle ye haue your part | |
| | Myn hous is strait but ye haue lernyd art | |
| | Ye can be argumentis maken a place | |
| | A myle brood of twenty foot of space | |
| 205 | Let se now yf this place wol suffise | |
| | Or make it romer with speche as is your gise | |
| | Now Symond said this Iohn be saint Cutberd | |
| | Ay is thow mery and that is wel answerd | |
| | I haue herd say þt men shal take of twa thingis | |
| 210 | Swilk as he fyndis or swilk as he bringis | |
| | But specially y pray the hoost so dere | |
| | Gete vs som mete & drinke & make vs chere | |
| | And we wol trewly at the fulle | |
| | With empti hondis men may not hawkis culle | |
| 215 | Lo here my siluer redy forto spende | |
| | This myller to the toun his doughter sende | |
| | For ale and breed and rostid hem a goos | |
| | And bond her hors that he sholde nomore go loos | |
| | And in his owen chamber he made a bed | |
| 220 | With shetes & with chalous faire I spred | |
| | Not from his owen bed ten foot or twelue | |
| | His doughter hadde a bed al be her selue | |
| | Right in the same chambir by and by | |
| | It myghte be no bet the cause why | |
| 225 | Ther was no romer herberow in the place | |
