[Causer] / Balades de vilage sanz peinture
¶ This wrecched worlde-is transmutacioun
As wele / or wo / now poeere and now honour
With-owten ordyr or wis descresyoun
Gouerned is by fortunes errour [4]
But natheles the lakke of hyr fauowr)
Ne may nat don me syngen thowh I. deye
Iay tout perdu moun temps et moun labour
For fynaly fortune .I. the deffye [8]
¶ Yit is me left the lyht of my resoun