Part 1. Of The House Of Captivity
Part 1. Of The House Of Captivity - Chapter 1. Catch At Utterhay
_ THE FIRST PART. OF THE HOUSE OF CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER I. CATCH AT UTTERHAY
Whilom, as tells the tale, was a walled cheaping-town hight Utterhay, which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great highway which went from over the mountains to the sea.
The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless； though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof.
Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden； never came chapman thence into Utterhay； no man of Utterhay was so poor or so bold that he durst raise the hunt therein； no outlaw durst flee thereto； no man of God had such trust in the saints that he durst build him a cell in that wood.
For all men deemed it more than perilous； and some said that there walked the worst of the dead； othersome t

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