allowed out, and holes were bored that he might breathe.

When his letter came, telling the king, his father, he was to be let
free when Gobborn and Jack were safe home, the king saw he must settle
for the building, and let them come away.

As they left Gobborn told him: Now that Jack was done with this work, he
should soon build a castle for his witty wife far superior to the
king's, which he did, and they lived there happily ever after.




Lawkamercyme

There was an old woman, as I've heard tell.
She went to the market her eggs for to sell;
She went to the market, all on a market-day,
And she fell asleep on the king's highway.

There came by a pedlar, whose name was Stout,
He cut her petticoats round about;
He cut her petticoats up to the knees,
Which made the old woman to shiver and freeze.

When this old woman first did wake,
She began to shiver, and she began to shake;
She began to wonder, and she began to cry--
"Lawkamercyme, this is none of I!"