Ne doth not al my desyring.
Yit can she som-tyme doon labour,
Whan that hir lust, in my socour,
[Al my nedis] for to acheve,
But now I thenke hir not to greve.
5885
My modir is she, and of childhede
I bothe worshipe hir, and eek drede;
For who that dredith sire ne dame
Shal it abye in body or name.