If that ye mighte come ayein or no?

Thus mene I, that it were a gret folye

To putte that sikernesse in Iupartye.

217. And vulgarly to speken of substaunce

Of tresour, may we bothe with us lede

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Y-nough to live in honour and plesaunce,

Til in-to tyme that we shul ben dede;

And thus we may eschewen al this drede.

For everich other wey ye can recorde,