1810

For ought I couthe pulle or winde.

So sore it stikid whan I was hit,

That by no craft I might it flit;

But anguissous and ful of thought,

I felte such wo, my wounde ay wrought,

1815

That somoned me alway to go

Toward the rose, that plesed me so;

But I ne durste in no manere,