As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.
While þei eeten, and refreischiden þe bodies with mete and drynk after þe trauel of weie, men of þat citee camen, þe sones of Belial, þat is, with out yok, and þei cumpassiden þe hows of þe elde man, and bigunnun to knocke þe doris; and þei crieden to þe lord of þe hows, and seiden, Lede out þe man þat entride in to thin hows, þat we mysuse him.