But yet n’ere 1574 Christian Britons so exiled, That there n’ere 1575 some which in their privity Honoured Christ, and heathen folk beguiled; And nigh the castle such there dwelled three: And one of them was blind, and might not see, But 1576 it were with thilk 1577 eyen of his mind, With which men mayë see when they be blind.

Bright was the sun, as in a summer’s day, For which the Constable, and his wife also, And Constance, have y-take the rightë way Toward the sea, a furlong way or two, To playen, and to roamë to and fro; And in their walk this blindë man they met, Crooked and old, with eyen fast y-shet. 1578