[Footnote 109: MS. fo.] [Footnote 110: MS. hungred.] [Footnote 111: MS. Brouht biforn; _but the word _brouht_ clearly belongs to the preceding line, in which, however, it is omitted._] [Footnote 112: We should perhaps read _flawen_, as required by the sense. _See_ ll. 2495, 2502.] [Headnote: GODARD IS FLAYED ALIVE AND HUNG.] [Sidenote: Godard is shriven.] +Hwan þe dom was demd and giue, 2488 And he was wit þe p{re}stes shriue, And it ne mouhte ben non oþer, Ne for fader, ne for broþer, Þat he sholde þarne lif; 2492 [Sidenote: A lad flays him.] Sket cam a ladde with a knif, And bigan Rith at þe to For to ritte, and for to flo, And he bigan for to rore, 2496 So it were grim or gore, Þat men mithe þeþen a mile [Sidenote: He roars.] Here him rore, þat fule file. Þe ladde ne let no with for-þi, 2500 Þey he criede ‘m{er}ci! m{er}ci!’ Þat [he] ne flow [him] eueril del With knif mad of grunde{n} stel. [Sidenote: He is bound on an old mare, drawn over rough ground, and hung.] Þei garte bringe þe mere sone, 2504 Skabbed[113] and ful iuele o bone, And bunde{n} him rith at hire tayl With a rop of an old seyl, And drowe{n} him un-to þe galwes, 2508 Nouth bi þe gate, But ouer þe falwes; And henge [him] þore Bi þe hals: Daþeit hwo recke! he was fals. [Footnote 113: MS. Skabbeb.] [Headnote: GODRICH RAISES AN ARMY AGAINST HAVELOK.]