And sayde twyes “Seynte Marie!

Thou art noyous for to carie.”...

“O god,” thoughte I, “that madest kinde,

Shal I non other weyes dye?

Wher Ioves wol me stellifye,

Or what thing may this signifye?

I neither am Enok, nor Elye,

Ne Romulus, ne Ganymede

That was y-bore up, as men rede,

To hevene with dan Iupiter,