Note * — Chapter I · A Narrative of Nine Hundred Years
Reading edition
The last four lines appear as follows in the "C-text" of Professor Skeat's monumental two volume edition of the poem—
Thauh thei don hem to Donemowe . bote the deuel hem helpe To folwen for the flicche . feccheth thei hit neuere; Bote thei bothe be for-swore . that bacon thei tyne.