Fortune our Ioye wolde han over-throwe?
56. For in this world ther is no creature,
As to my doom, that ever saw ruyne
Straungere than this, thorugh cas or aventure.
But who may al eschewe or al devyne?
390
Swich is this world; for-thy I thus defyne,
Ne trust no wight to finden in Fortune
Ay [propretee]; hir yeftes been comune.
57. But tel me this, why thou art now so mad