Bot certes, fader, sche ne doth;

For in good feith, to telle soth,

I trowe, thogh I scholde sterve,

Sche wolde noght hire yhe swerve,

To fede, and thus for such a cok

Therof I have at every meel 720

Bot that is of himself so towh,

Of love, which myn herte fedeth;