And who that giltif is, al quit goth he?

1020

O were it leful for to pleyne on thee,

That [undeserved] suffrest Ialousye,

And that I wolde up-on thee pleyne and crye!

147. Eek al my wo is this, that folk now usen

To seyn right thus, "ye, Ialousye is love!"

1025

And wolde a busshel venim al excusen,

For that o greyn of love is on it shove!