Cloudesles clothes shold he have,
To take the measure of that good yoman,
And thereafter to make hys grave.
72.
72.2 ‘pryme’; see 9.3, note.
‘I have sene as great a mervaile,’ said Cloudesle,
‘As betweyne thys and pryme,
He that maketh thys grave for me,
Hymselfe may lye therin.’
73.