and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with 'the jeopardy of' their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
þat Y do this thing in þe siyt of my God, and þat Y drynke þe blood of þese men, for in þe perel of her lyues þei brouyten watir to me; and for this cause he nolde drynke. Þre strongeste men diden þese thingis.