_2nd Torturer._ Yet after, whilst thy hand is in Pull thereat with some engine. _3rd Torturer._ Yea, and bring it to the mark. _4th Torturer._ Pull, pull! _1st Torturer._ Have now! _2nd Torturer._ Let see! _3rd Torturer._ Aha! _4th Torturer._ Yet, a draught! _1st Torturer._ Thereto with all my might. _2nd Torturer._ Aha, hold still thore.[298] _3rd Torturer._ So, fellows, look now alive, Which of you can best drive, And I shall take the bore. _4th Torturer._ Let me go to it, if I shall I hope that I be the best marshal[299] For to clink[300] it right. Do raise him up now when we may, For I hope he and his palfrey Shall not twine[301] this night. _1st Torturer._ Come hither, fellows, and have done, And help that this tree soon Be lift with all your sleight. _2nd Torturer._ Yet let us work awhile, And no man now the other beguile Till it be brought on height. _3rd Torturer._ Fellows, lay on all your hende[302] For to raise this tree on ende And lets see who is last. _4th Torturer._ I rede we do as he says, Set we the tree on the mortase,[303] And there, will it stand fast. _1st Torturer._ Up with the timber. _2nd Torturer._ Ah, it holds! For him, that all this world wields, Put from thee, with thy hand. _3rd Torturer._ Hold even! amongst us all. _4th Torturer._ Yea, and let it into the mortise fall, For then will it best stand. _1st Torturer._ Go we to it, and be we strong, And raise it, be it never so long, Since that it is fast bound. _2nd Torturer._ Up with the timber fast on ende. _3rd Torturer._ Ah fellows, fair fall now your hende. _4th Torturer._ So, sir, gape against the sun! [_To Christ._ _1st Torturer._ Ah, fellow, wear thy crown! _2nd Torturer._ Trowest thou this timber will come down? _3rd Torturer._ Yet help, to make it fast. _4th Torturer._ Bind him well, and let us lift. _1st Torturer._ Full short shall be his thrift. _2nd Torturer._ Ah, it stands up like a mast.