for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
For Y and my puple ben youun, þat we be defoulid, and stranglid, and þat we perische; and Y wolde, þat we weren seeld in to seruauntis and seruauntessis, and þe yuel were suffrable, and Y were stille weilynge; but now oure enemy is, whos cruelte turneth in to þe kyng.