‘To proffer [luff] thus sone I wald nocht preffe;
‘Mycht I leyff off, in wer I lik to leyff.635
‘Quhat is this luff? no thing bot folychnes;
‘It may reiff men bathe witt and stedfastnes.’
Than said he thus; ‘This will nocht graithly be,
‘Amors and wer at anys to ryng in me.
‘Rycht suth it is, stude I in blis off luffe,640
‘Quhar dedis war I suld the bettir pruff.
‘[Bot weyle I wait, quhar gret ernyst is in thocht,]
‘It lattis wer in the wysest wys be wrocht;