For knights and all men this by nature haue,
Towards all womenkind them kindly to behaue.
But sith that he is gone irreuocable, xv
Please it you Ladie, to vs to aread,
What cause could make him so dishonourable,
To driue you so on foot vnfit to tread,
And lackey by him, gainst all womanhead?
Certes Sir knight (sayd she) full loth I were
To rayse a lyuing blame against the dead:
But since[425] it me concernes, my selfe to clere,