Nothing is this more clean, uncleaner nothing that other,

Yet I ajudge —— cleaner and nicer to be;

5

For while this one lacks teeth, that one has cubit-long tushes,

Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,

Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule

Whenas in summer-heat wont peradventure to stale.

Yet has he many a motte and holds himself to be handsome—

10

Why wi' the baker's ass is he not bound to the mill?