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‘Yonder cometh a proud potter,’ said Robin, ‘That long hath haunted this way; He was never so courteous a man One penny of pavage to pay.’

The testator was an attorney, and his name occurs in many legal documents relating to Holborn in the reign of Edward III.; he was also associated with others of the neighbourhood in various pavage commissions.

‘All this three year and more, potter,’ he said, ‘Thou hast haunted this way, Yet were thou never so courteous a man One penny of pavage to pay.’

‘What is thy name,’ said the potter, ‘’Fore pavage thou ask of me?’

Nor pavage will I none pay; Away thy hand fro my horse!