That scorneth many a creature!

An ydole of fals portraiture

Is she, for she wil sone wryen;

She is the monstres heed y-wryen,

As filth over y-strawed with floures;

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Hir moste worship and hir [flour is]

To lyen, for that is hir nature;

Withoute feyth, lawe, or mesure

She is fals; and ever laughinge