Nikolaus at Stan-forde

Yea, the Niklaus did wayke ærlie fromme his beadchambres, and he did set about making his mourning prepparations, whith his mäny beardes and he applied töothe-paystes, and his crävats, and he did fasten his cummerebunde, and his lederhosen, and his sandals-shoon, and his coulettes, and then he did depart from out his palisade, and he rang the battlement, and they thundered a great thundere, and it creaked open, and he did take hold of the reins of his hourses, and they galloped and escalloped, and they did swiftly to a course to a great hall, of a universtie, and it wausse goode.

Yea, he saw greate buildinges, and they were red of the most bloodie, and sanguine, and penguine, and yea, they had manie a battlements from which one poured hot oil at invaders, and shotte flayming arrowes at the marauders, and yea, he did observe this, and yea, he took his hourses across the great plain, and entered the gates, and they creaked and thundered, and opened, and then Niklaus tied this hourses to a post, that was large, and it wausse goode.

Yea, then he entered one of the greate buildingse, and yea, he saw little people guarding the halls, for it was yet early i' th' morn, and the defences were weake, and he penetrated the fleshe of the matters, and the great halls, and he saw many thinges, and it wausse goode.

Then he did converse with several peoples, and they did accost and worchippe him, and give him mustarde, and mortars, and pestles, and pesto, and many dainty fruites, and they dide stab him from the behind, and in the kidneye, for they knew that he was secretely plotting to vandalise the bill-bourads and it wausse goode.