Thenne cam Pees into parlement, And putte up a bylle. How that Wrong wilfullich Hadde hus wif for-leyen; And how he ravysed Rose, The riche widewe, by nyghte; And Margarete of here maidenhod, As he met hure late. 'Both my goos, and my grys, And my gras he taketh, Ich dar nouht for is felaweshepe, In faith!' Pees saide, 'Bere sickerlich eny selver To seint Gyles doune; He watteth ful wel, Wan ich sulfere taketh, Wat wey ich wende. Wel yerne he aspieth, To robbe me and to ryfle me, Yf ich ride softe. Yut he is bolde for to borwe, And baldelich he payeth: He borwede of me Bayarde,' etc. 2177. _How Wrong ayeins his wille._ What follows is a true picture of the oppressions to which the peasantry were frequently subjected by the king's purveyors, and by others in power. See the Political Songs, pp. 377, 378; and Hartshorne's Ancient Metrical Tales, pp. 41, 42. 2197. _taillé_, a tally. See the Political Songs, as above quoted. Whitaker translates this passage, which stands thus in his edition, And taketh me bote a taile For ten quarters other twelve, by, "and for ten or twelve quarters of it repaid me but _a sheep's tail_!" 2298. _in my stokkes._ In my prison. Prisons were usually furnished with stocks, in which, instead of fetters, prisoners were set. 2323. _Beneyt._ St. Benedict, the founder of the Benedictine order; St. Bernard, of the order of Cistercians; St. Francis, of the Franciscans. 2335. _Galis._ Compostello in Galicia. 2473. _Passus Quintus._ In Whitaker's text, this section, which is called _Passus Sextus_, is prefaced by the following long exordium, intended as a satire against the mendicant friars:--